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Hashtags and Selfies Yield College Scholarships
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Hashtags and Selfies Yield College Scholarships

Companies and institutions are offering new scholarships that will help today's college students use social media to help finance college costs.

Beyond Classic Brain Illustrations That Make ­S Drool
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Beyond Classic Brain Illustrations That Make ­S Drool

I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.

Tattoo Biobatteries Produce Power From Sweat

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Tattoo Biobatteries Produce Power From Sweat


Researchers have designed a sensor in the form of a temporary tattoo that can monitor a person's performance and produce power from his or her perspiration.

As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...

Quantum Engineering
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Quantum Engineering

Paola Cappellaro's lab at MIT operates at the interface of basic and applied research. "We sometimes go more in one direction and sometimes more in the other,"...

Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
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Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask

When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.

Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
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Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style

Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.

Founder of America's Biggest Hacker Conference: 'we ­nderstand the Threat Now'
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Founder of America's Biggest Hacker Conference: 'we ­nderstand the Threat Now'

For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.

Artificial Intelligence Will Not Turn Into a Frankenstein's Monster
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Artificial Intelligence Will Not Turn Into a Frankenstein's Monster

The singularity—or, to give it its proper title, the technological singularity. It's an idea that has taken on a life of its own; more of a life, I suspect, than...

Smithsonian Seeks Volunteers for Massive Digitization Project
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Smithsonian Seeks Volunteers for Massive Digitization Project

The Smithsonian has opened its Transcription Center website to the public in an effort to leverage the power of crowds to help it unlock the content inside thousands...

Pushing the Envelope in Power Electronics
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Pushing the Envelope in Power Electronics

Researchers are working to improve power conversion in applications ranging from giant server farms to lamps to handheld devices.

When Hackers Test For Flaws, They Might Earn Cash—or Threats
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When Hackers Test For Flaws, They Might Earn Cash—or Threats

To hack or not to hack?

Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms
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Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms

Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...

Here's How the Feds Are Teaming Up With Hackers to Save US All from Robocalls
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Here's How the Feds Are Teaming Up With Hackers to Save US All from Robocalls

The Federal Trade Commission is at one of the world's biggest hacker conferences this weekend, where hackers are competing to help save us all from robocalls.

On the Frontiers of Cyborg Science
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On the Frontiers of Cyborg Science

No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is making tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics, and ultraflexible...

CMU Code Accommodates Multiple Languages in Same Program
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CMU Code Accommodates Multiple Languages in Same Program

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a way to safely use multiple programming languages within the same program, enabling programmers...

Meet the Puzzle Mastermind Who Designs Def Con's Hackable Badges
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Meet the Puzzle Mastermind Who Designs Def Con's Hackable Badges

Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...

Alternative STEM Programs Offer Early Career Prep For Students
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Alternative STEM Programs Offer Early Career Prep For Students

The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program's Summer Bridge program included more than 20 high school students who took college-level math courses and interned...

IBM Synapse Chip Could Open Era of Vast Neural Networks
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IBM Synapse Chip Could Open Era of Vast Neural Networks

IBM has developed a chip featuring a brain-inspired non-von Neumann computer architecture with a mesh network of 4,096 digital, distributed neurosynaptic cores.

Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Crawls Away
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Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Crawls Away

Prototype made almost entirely of printable parts by MIT and Harvard researchers demonstrates crucial capabilities of reconfigurable robots.
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