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White House Officials Soften Approach at Rsa Conference
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White House Officials Soften Approach at Rsa Conference

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch joined a parade of Obama administration officials to tech's home turf on Tuesday. Their message: National security depends on...

Ford's Futurist Knows Kids Today See Status in Their Smartphones, Not Cars
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Ford's Futurist Knows Kids Today See Status in Their Smartphones, Not Cars

There can't be many job titles out there cooler than "futurist." And earlier this week, I sat down with Sheryl Connelly, who holds that position at the Ford Motor...

Google's Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show

On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...

Electron-Beam Imaging Sees Elements That Are 'invisible' to Common Methods
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Electron-Beam Imaging Sees Elements That Are 'invisible' to Common Methods

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed and tested a new imaging technique that greatly improves images of light elements using fewer...

Building Living, Breathing Supercomputers
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Building Living, Breathing Supercomputers

A team of researchers have created a model of a biological computer that is able to process information quickly and accurately.

A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers' Expense
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A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers' Expense

Roger Anderson may not seem like a superhero. But to many, he has become one.

Quantum Dot Solids: This Generation's Silicon Wafer?
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Quantum Dot Solids: This Generation's Silicon Wafer?

Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of electronics 60 years ago, a group of Cornell researchers is hoping its work with quantum...

Moving Electrons Around Loops with Light
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Moving Electrons Around Loops with Light

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate a quantum logic operation, or rotation of the qubit, that is intrinsically resilient to noise as well as to...

Buildings Wrapped in High-Efficiency, Flexible Solar Cells? It Could Happen
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Buildings Wrapped in High-Efficiency, Flexible Solar Cells? It Could Happen

A patented breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells by 50 percent, and could...

Virtual Reality Companies Look to Science Fiction For Their Next Play
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Virtual Reality Companies Look to Science Fiction For Their Next Play

Tech companies have spent years developing better, cheaper devices to immerse people in digital worlds. Yet they are still figuring out how to make virtual reality...

Ted 2016: Hololens ­nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
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Ted 2016: Hololens ­nveils 'teleportation' to Mars

HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.

The President's Nsa Advisory Board Finally Gets a Tech Expert
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The President's Nsa Advisory Board Finally Gets a Tech Expert

It's taken more than a decade, but a critical oversight board tasked with advising the president on the privacy and civil liberties implications of the NSA's surveillance...

Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade

Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.

Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament
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Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament

The United States Military Academy at West Point took home the top prize earlier this month in Pittsburgh at CyberStakes, the Pentagon's third annual top tier hacking...

5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind
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5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave
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Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave

The first direct detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window in physics and astronomy—rewarding a cohort of young researchers who gambled on finding...

Crunching Quantum Code
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Crunching Quantum Code

Theoretical physicists at MIT recently reported a quantum computer design and error correction method based on special electronic states called Majorana fermions...

Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'

Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
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Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them

Just over a billion years ago, many millions of galaxies from here, a pair of black holes collided.

Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time
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Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time

Moore's law has died at the age of 51 after an extended illness.
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