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These Programming Skills Will Earn You the Most Money
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These Programming Skills Will Earn You the Most Money

If you want to provoke an argument among computer programmers, ask them to pick their favorite coding language or framework. But even more contentious in an environment...

Extreme Materials and ­biquitous Electronics
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Extreme Materials and ­biquitous Electronics

Associate Professor Tomás Palacios and researchers at MIT explore the application of novel materials to help next-generation electronics save energy.

How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition
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How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition

Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware...

How Sensors That Test Our Stress Could Revolutionize Product Design
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How Sensors That Test Our Stress Could Revolutionize Product Design

What do Best Buy, the Blue Man Group and Google X have in common? They've all tapped Elliott Hedman and his sensors to help make their stuff better.

Amazon Robots Boost Efficiency — and Open New Job Possibilities
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Amazon Robots Boost Efficiency — and Open New Job Possibilities

Amazon.com's use of robots in its warehouses will increase efficiency and open the possibilities for more jobs, according to Ross Knepper of Cornell University...

Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind

He told the BBC: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

To Lure Young, Movie Theaters Shake, Smell and Spritz
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To Lure Young, Movie Theaters Shake, Smell and Spritz

Having tried 3-D films, earsplitting sound systems and even alcohol sales in pursuit of younger moviegoers, some theater chains are now installing undulating seats...

Computer Equal to or Better Than Humans at Cataloging Science
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Computer Equal to or Better Than Humans at Cataloging Science

A computer system developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison equaled or bested scientists at the complex task of extracting data from scientific publications...

Cockpit Automation Causes Pilots to Lose Critical Thinking Skills
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Cockpit Automation Causes Pilots to Lose Critical Thinking Skills

New human factors/ergonomics research suggests that pilots' thinking skills are  vulnerable in today's automated cockpits.

Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate

When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...

Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper

When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...

Microscopy: Hasten High Resolution
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Microscopy: Hasten High Resolution

The best electron and scanning probe microscopes today can resolve individual atoms and chemical bonds.

Researchers Develop Efficient Method to Produce Nanoporous Metals
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Researchers Develop Efficient Method to Produce Nanoporous Metals

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers have developed a cost-effective way to manufacture nanoporous...

College Diplomas, With a Side of Specialized Study
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College Diplomas, With a Side of Specialized Study

Recent college graduates, especially those in the liberal arts and political sciences, increasingly are turning to coding boot camps, online courses, and community...

Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000
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Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000

Big companies, such as Amazon and Facebook, are looking for pilots who fly drones and engineers with experience in building the unmanned aircraft. And they are...

­.s. Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants
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­.s. Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants

A new study of worldwide migration based on social media data from LinkedIn shows a sharp drop-off in the proportion of professional workers migrating to the United...

Innovative Supercomputers Increase U.S. Computational Capacity
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Innovative Supercomputers Increase U.S. Computational Capacity

The U.S. National Science Foundation has committed $16 million to build two new supercomputers with cloud-based and data-intensive capabilities for use by the open...

Venture Money Pours Into Robotics Startups
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Venture Money Pours Into Robotics Startups

Robots are creating work for at least one kind of human: venture capitalists.

­S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics
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­S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics

For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...

Data Science Students Take Aim at Human Trafficking
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Data Science Students Take Aim at Human Trafficking

Two Creighton University graduate students are using their study of computer science, international relations, and "fuzzy math" to combat one of the world's most...
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