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HP Will Pay Hackers ­p to $10,000 to Break Their Printers
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HP Will Pay Hackers ­p to $10,000 to Break Their Printers

HP announced its first bug bounty program that specifically targets its printers, offering as much as $10,000 to hackers who can find vulnerabilities on its machines...

The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
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The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks

In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...

Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars
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Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars

Listen, I get it. You want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. (Sort of.) And the plan—it's good.

The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal

In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...

One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
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One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars

Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon. 

JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'
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JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'

In honor of National Intern Day on Thursday, July 26, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is celebrating the 700 students from around the...

Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto

Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...

DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative
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DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative

Hundreds of engineers gathered at the Darpa Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit in San Francisco yesterday to hear that dozens of them were getting millions...

Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots

Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...

Harry Potter Coding Kit Teaches Programming with a Wand
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Harry Potter Coding Kit Teaches Programming with a Wand

The Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit from Kano teaches kids how to program a wand to perform magic spells.

Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School
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Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School

The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people's genes and how far they get in school.

Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making
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Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making

Computer scientists find that physicians' sentiments or "gut feelings" influence their utilizaton of diagnostic imaging utilization, moreso at the beginning of...

NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data

While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...

Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't
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Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't

Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam.

AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work
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AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work

Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products...

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
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Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News

When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend.

Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern
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Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern

Computers' amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological...

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming ­p Details About You, And It Could Raise Your Rates
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming ­p Details About You, And It Could Raise Your Rates

To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month's health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren't very compelling.

To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten ­p AI in Space
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten ­p AI in Space

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...

Pentagon Sees Quantum Computing as Key Weapon for War In Space
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Pentagon Sees Quantum Computing as Key Weapon for War In Space

Quantum computing is one area where the Pentagon worries that it is playing catchup with China.
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