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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google

In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere have met with European officials about proposals to regulate...

Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
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Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies

Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.

Up and Down Quarks Favored Over Strange Ones
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Up and Down Quarks Favored Over Strange Ones

Researchers found that when enough energy is provided for a single pair of up, down, or strange quarks, the new particles are far more likely to be made of the...

The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future
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The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future

In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression.

Connecting Your Car to Your Smartphone Can Make Auto Data Work For You
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Connecting Your Car to Your Smartphone Can Make Auto Data Work For You

If your car could talk, you might be surprised by how much it has to say.

Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers
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Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers

There was a time when neuroscientists could only dream of having such a problem.

Tech Companies Are Hiring More Liberal-Arts Majors Than You Think
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Tech Companies Are Hiring More Liberal-Arts Majors Than You Think

Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished college in the first...

Social Is Dead: What 146 Startup Pitches Showed Me about the Next Wave of Tech Companies
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Social Is Dead: What 146 Startup Pitches Showed Me about the Next Wave of Tech Companies

Investing in startups is like bird-watching, or at least that's the quote from legendary venture capitalist Mike Moritz.

The ­pside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley
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The ­pside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley

In October 2008, in the early days of the last economic collapse, Sequoia Capital invited founders of technology companies to a frank meeting outlining the new...

Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
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Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies

In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...

The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools
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The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools

Harvard and Stanford may jump to mind when it comes to tech titans. But for the next generation of entrepreneur, we may need to look outside the Ivy League.

Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests
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Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests

Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, according to a new study that examined 140,000 papers published between...

Argonne Pushing Boundaries of Computing in Engine Simulations
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Argonne Pushing Boundaries of Computing in Engine Simulations

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory will be testing the limits of computing horsepower this year with a new simulation project that will harness 60 million...

Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs
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Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have identified a new method of cheating specific to MOOCs and recommend a number of strategies to prevent such cheating...

What Is Elegance in Science?
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What Is Elegance in Science?

In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...

Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls
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Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls

A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...

Inside the Surprisingly High-Stakes Quest to Design a Computer Program That 'gets' Sarcasm Online
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Inside the Surprisingly High-Stakes Quest to Design a Computer Program That 'gets' Sarcasm Online

A computer program that can reliably detect sarcasm is a formidable challenge, a key hurdle being that most cues signaling sarcasm are non-textual.

John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86
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John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86

John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in...

The Future of Forecasting
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The Future of Forecasting

Researchers in Europe have used the Titan supercomputer to refine their weather prediction model in hopes of understanding their future computational needs for...

Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency

Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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