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Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living
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Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living

Google's ambitions and investments have increasingly broadened beyond its digital origins in Internet search and online advertising into the arena of physical objects...

Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?
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Will Your Self-Driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?

An ethical puzzler commonly known as the Trolley Problem has been given a 21st-century adaption to address a modern obsession: autonomous vehicles.

How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head.

Hackathon to Identify Cyber Security Talent of the Future
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Hackathon to Identify Cyber Security Talent of the Future

A 24-hour hackathon will mark the start of a new partnership between the University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre and Callsign Inc. to develop and support...

IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream
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IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream

International Business Machines Corp. has thrown its weight behind Spark, an increasingly popular tool that is used to analyze large amounts of data in real time...

Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?

A new study shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people's communications patterns change when they...

Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age

To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.

Exotic Property Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips
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Exotic Property Could Help Beat the Heat Problem in Computer Chips

X-ray studies at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have observed an exotic property that could warp the electronic structure of a material in a way that...

Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing

"Where am I?" In the real world, it's an easy question to answer. Online, things can get more complicated.

Centimeter-Long Origami Robot
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Centimeter-Long Origami Robot

MIT researchers have developed a printable origami robot that folds itself up from a flat sheet of plastic when heated and whose motion is controlled by external...

Get A Raise: Do's And Don'ts For It Pros
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Get A Raise: Do's And Don'ts For It Pros

Convincing your employer that you're worth a pay raise requires strategy, data on compensation trends, and good timing. There are proven ways to improve your...

Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing
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Five Companies Control More Than Half of Academic Publishing

Five publishers — Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage — now publish more than 50 percent of academic articles.

Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research
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Robotics Competition Generated Groundbreaking Research

The research, theory, and algorithms behind Team MIT's sixth-place finish in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet
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Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet

When you hear the word "Internet," what do you picture in your mind?

Sandia, Georgia Tech Form Academic Collaboration
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Sandia, Georgia Tech Form Academic Collaboration

Sandia National Laboratories and Georgia Institute of Technology have signed a five-year memorandum of understanding establishing a strategic collaboration that...

U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016

The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...

Apple's Biggest Breakthrough That Almost No One Knows About
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Apple's Biggest Breakthrough That Almost No One Knows About

Ask the average Apple fan to make a list of the important moves the company has made in the past year or so, and the list will probably start with the Apple Watch...

Misperceptions Discourage Girls From Studying Stem, Study Says
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Misperceptions Discourage Girls From Studying Stem, Study Says

Schools should foster in girls a 'growth mindset' of mathematical ability to overcome misperceptions and encourage more of them to opt for STEM majors, a new study...

Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink

In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...

Futuristic Components on Silicon Chips, Fabricated Successfully
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Futuristic Components on Silicon Chips, Fabricated Successfully

IBM researchers develop a technique for integrating III-V materials onto silicon wafers, a development that may allow an extension to Moore's Law.
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