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New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring
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New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring

Cornell social scientists found that women hold no hiring edge when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics...

How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won
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How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won

Earlier this month the European Union's top court struck down a major trade agreement that thousands of companies use to transfer Europeans' personal data to the...

Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...

Smarter Lenses
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Smarter Lenses

A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens.

Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says
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Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says

An assistant professor at Cornell University says her recent study was successfully replicated by the Federal Reserve because her code was available to other researchers...

IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip

In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...

Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work

For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social...

Think Twice About Android Root
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Think Twice About Android Root

A study by UC Riverside engineers quantifies the amount of Android root exploits available in commercial software, and shows that they can be easily abused.

Automating Big-Data Analysis
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Automating Big-Data Analysis

The 'Data Science Machine' developed by MIT researchers aims to find predictive patterns in raw data. The new system finished ahead of 615 of the 906 human teams...

Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce
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Immigrants Have a Growing Role in the ­.S. Sci-Tech Workforce

Immigrants accounted for 18 percent of U.S. scientists and engineers in 2013, up from 16 percent in 2003, according to a U.S. National Science Foundation report...

Report: Federal Cybersecurity Education Programs Must Expand
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Report: Federal Cybersecurity Education Programs Must Expand

Federal cybersecurity education programs need to reach out to more institutions to fortify security in the future, according to a new National Academy of Public...

Hacking For Security, and Getting Paid For It
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Hacking For Security, and Getting Paid For It

It should come as no surprise that the Internet is riddled with holes.

Bu Research Could Revolutionize Flexible Electronics, Solar Cells
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Bu Research Could Revolutionize Flexible Electronics, Solar Cells

Researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly process that enables unprecedented spatial control over the electrical properties of graphene oxide, a two-dimensional...

One Direction: Researchers Grow Nanocircuitry with Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons
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One Direction: Researchers Grow Nanocircuitry with Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons

In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the...

Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself

Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon.

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?
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Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?

Researchers say that data breaches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago, and that in general they are not growing in size.

What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media
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What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media

Let's face it: Corporate America's social presence could use a celebrity makeover.

Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits
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Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits

At a demo day in San Francisco on Wednesday, Joyce Kim's presentation of her financial tech startup sounded a lot like a tech startup pitching venture capitalists...

Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score

Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.
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