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New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk
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New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk

About a year ago, in a widely reported story, journalists at British newspaper the Telegraph found little black boxes installed under their desks.

How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly
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How Do Israel's Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly

Over the course of 30 years working in Israeli intelligence, Shmuel Bar immersed himself in the hermeneutics of terrorism.

Protecting Bulk Power Systems from Hackers
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Protecting Bulk Power Systems from Hackers

Reliability measures of electrical grid is a crucial step towards improving its security.

Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?
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Coming Technology Will Likely Destroy Millions of Jobs. Is Trump Ready?

American manufacturing job losses to China and Mexico were a major theme of the presidential campaign, and President Trump has followed up on his promise to pressure...

New Method Improves Accuracy of Imaging Systems
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New Method Improves Accuracy of Imaging Systems

New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes,...

Engineers Develop Powerful Millimeter-Wave Signal Generator
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Engineers Develop Powerful Millimeter-Wave Signal Generator

Integrated circuit researchers at the University of California, Irvine have created a silicon microchip-based component that could revolutionize scanning, spectroscopy...

Supercomputers For Quantum Computers
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Supercomputers For Quantum Computers

Using supercomputers, scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory predicted possible new qubits built out of strained aluminum nitride...

As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened
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As Goldman Embraces Automation, Even the Masters of the ­niverse Are Threatened

At its height back in 2000, the U.S. cash equities trading desk at Goldman Sachs’s New York headquarters employed 600 traders, buying and selling stock on the orders...

Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects
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Machine Learning Method Accurately Predicts Metallic Defects

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have built and trained machine learning algorithms to predict defect behavior in certain intermetallic compounds...

Why Bill Belichick Cast Down His Tablet
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Why Bill Belichick Cast Down His Tablet

As the New England Patriots' 10th appearance in a Super Bowl approaches, sports fans are eager to see the legendary pairing of quarterback Tom Brady and head coach...

Supercomputing, Experiment Combine For First Look at Magnetism of Real Nanoparticle
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Supercomputing, Experiment Combine For First Look at Magnetism of Real Nanoparticle

3-D atomistic structure of a real iron-platinum nanoparticle reveals precise magnetic properties.

­csd Comet Supercomputer Surpasses '10,000 ­sers' Milestone
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­csd Comet Supercomputer Surpasses '10,000 ­sers' Milestone

About 15,000 users have used Comet, the petascale supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, to run science gateway jobs since the system went into production...

Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data
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Will You Graduate? Ask Big Data

At Georgia State's nursing school, the faculty used to believe that students who got a poor grade in "Conceptual Foundations of Nursing" probably wouldn't go on...

Botnets Could Meet Their Match in Robot Hackers
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Botnets Could Meet Their Match in Robot Hackers

Last summer the Pentagon staged a contest in Las Vegas in which high-powered computers spent 12 hours trying to hack one another in pursuit of a $2 million purse...

The Internet of Things Comes to the Lab
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The Internet of Things Comes to the Lab

Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying.

Quantum Computing Paranoia Creates a New Industry
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Quantum Computing Paranoia Creates a New Industry

Fear sells in the computer security business.

Co-Design Centers to Help Make Next-Generation Cxascale Computing a Reality
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Co-Design Centers to Help Make Next-Generation Cxascale Computing a Reality

Computer designers are looking to overcome limitations in existing high-performance computing systems and develop, design, and optimize new software and hardware...

Optimizing Code
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Optimizing Code

A new variation on a popular open-source compiler optimizes parallel code better than any commercial or open-source compiler, its developers say.

For This Metal, Electricity Flows, But Not the Heat
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For This Metal, Electricity Flows, But Not the Heat

A Berkeley-led study finds law-breaking property in vanadium dioxide that could lead to applications such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from...

Israeli Cybersecurity Industry Grows as Global Threats Multiply
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Israeli Cybersecurity Industry Grows as Global Threats Multiply

Investments in Israe's cybersecurity industry jumped 9 percent in 2016, a year when the world suffered a successful cyberattack on a national power grid, a massive...
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