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Making a Difference with Open Source Science Equipment
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Making a Difference with Open Source Science Equipment

A new study states that open source hardware design involving relatively minor development costs can yield enormous returns on investment for the scientific community...

You Aren't Good Enough to Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy Football
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You Aren't Good Enough to Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy Football

Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.

Google Won't Have Easy Ride Back Into China
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Google Won't Have Easy Ride Back Into China

Google Inc CEO Sundar Pichai has made no secret that he wants to get back into China via Google Play, the app store for its Android mobile operating system.

China Flexes Tech Muscles Before a State Visit
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China Flexes Tech Muscles Before a State Visit

As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for his first state visit to the United States this month, Washington has warned that it could hit Chinese companies with...

Researchers Tout Cache-Coherence Mechanism For Multicore Chips
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Researchers Tout Cache-Coherence Mechanism For Multicore Chips

A more efficient memory-management scheme could help enable processors with thousands of cores.

NSF Grant Supports Efforts to Train Teachers in Computer Science
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NSF Grant Supports Efforts to Train Teachers in Computer Science

A National Science Foundation grant will support Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson's initiative to teach computer science in every high school.

Nyu and Stanford Receive $3 Million Nsf Grant to Develop STEM Curriculum
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Nyu and Stanford Receive $3 Million Nsf Grant to Develop STEM Curriculum

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to researchers at NYU and Stanford University to create a science curriculum for fifth graders, especially...

Making IoT Configuration More Secure and Easy-to-Use
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Making IoT Configuration More Secure and Easy-to-Use

Researchers from the University of Southampton have identified easy-to-use techniques to configure Internet of Things objects, to make them more secure and help...

Fortifying Computer Chips For Space Travel
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Fortifying Computer Chips For Space Travel

Berkeley Lab's particle accelerator blasts microprocessors with high-energy beams to toughen them up for trips into space.

Wine Matching: Tasty Uses for Algorithms
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Wine Matching: Tasty Uses for Algorithms

A pair of onetime MIT roommates recently teamed up to launch an online wine club based on big data.

Dhs Awards $10.4m in Mobile Security Research Contracts
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Dhs Awards $10.4m in Mobile Security Research Contracts

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has announced $10.4 million in cybersecurity Mobile Technology Security R&D awards...

NSF Grant Funds Research on Wearable Device Security
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NSF Grant Funds Research on Wearable Device Security

Two Wichita State University professors have been awarded a $380,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to investigate cybersecurity and privacy...

Customizing 3-D Printing
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Customizing 3-D Printing

Researchers from MIT and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel have developed a design tool that automatically turns CAD files for a 3-D printer into...

Alien Transit Systems May Be a Giveaway in the Search For Et
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Alien Transit Systems May Be a Giveaway in the Search For Et

Avi Loeb has an unorthodox new idea about how to search for alien civilizations—and it is hardly a surprise.

Putin vs. the Internet: The Laws That Matter
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Putin vs. the Internet: The Laws That Matter

A new law in force in Russia from Sept. 1 is intended to force foreign Internet firms to maintain local servers to handle data on Russian citizens.

7 Technology Trends that Will Make or Break Many Careers
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7 Technology Trends that Will Make or Break Many Careers

No matter what field you work in, if you're hoping to get ahead in your career, you need to be mindful of technology trends.

Technology Transforms Cell Phone Into High-Powered Microscope
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Technology Transforms Cell Phone Into High-Powered Microscope

Technology that transforms a cell phone into a powerful, mobile microscope could significantly improve malaria diagnoses and treatment in developing countries...

James L. Flanagan, Who Helped Make Computers Talk, Dies at 89
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James L. Flanagan, Who Helped Make Computers Talk, Dies at 89

James L. Flanagan, whom we can thank for articulate digital assistants like Siri and intelligible subway loudspeakers and blame for the disembodied voices that...

Gaming Computers Offer Huge, ­ntapped Energy Savings Potential
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Gaming Computers Offer Huge, ­ntapped Energy Savings Potential

Berkeley Lab researcher Evan Mills reports that gaming computers offer a potential estimated energy savings of $18 billion per year, without sacrificing system...

On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers' Hands
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On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers' Hands

Farmers and entrepreneurs are starting to compete with agribusiness giants over the newest commodity being harvested on U.S. farms—one measured in bytes, not bushels...
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