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Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business
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Ibm's Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business

IBM is not a design company.

Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips
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Switchable Material Could Enable New Memory Chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...

'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
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'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists

Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...

Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells
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Scientists Demonstrate Basics of Nucleic Acid Computing Inside Cells

Using strands of nucleic acid, scientists have demonstrated basic computing operations inside a living mammalian cell.

Nanodevice, Build Thyself
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Nanodevice, Build Thyself

Researcher into the electronic interactions of molecules could yield information that may one day be harnessed to make molecular building blocks self-assemble into...

Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now
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Google Maps Guesses Where You're Headed Now

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.

Microbots Individually Controlled ­sing 'mini Force Fields'
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Microbots Individually Controlled ­sing 'mini Force Fields'

Researchers are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual micro-robots operating within groups.

Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up

A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...

Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike
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Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike

No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings.

Phononic Filter Could Revolutionize Signal Processing Systems
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Phononic Filter Could Revolutionize Signal Processing Systems

Sandia researchers have demonstrated a mechanism for coherent information processing in integrated photonics and say the concept could be the basis for powerful...

Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv
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Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv

If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit...

In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind

An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...

Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA

Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...

Lego For the Fabrication of Atomically Precise Electronic Circuits
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Lego For the Fabrication of Atomically Precise Electronic Circuits

Pre-designed molecular building blocks provide atomic-level control of the width of graphene nanoribbons.

Automakers, Not Silicon Valley, Lead in Driverless Car Patents: Study
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Automakers, Not Silicon Valley, Lead in Driverless Car Patents: Study

Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver's seat in developing self-driving, "autonomous" cars, and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp is best positioned to...

Learning to Apply Data Science to Business Problems
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Learning to Apply Data Science to Business Problems

One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...

Two-Dimensional Metamaterial Could Speed Up Computers
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Two-Dimensional Metamaterial Could Speed Up Computers

A team of scientists has proposed a two-dimensional metamaterial composed of silver elements, that refracts light in an unusual way.

What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.
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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.

Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico...

Here's Why the ­niversity of California Is Getting Into the Venture Capital Business
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Here's Why the ­niversity of California Is Getting Into the Venture Capital Business

In September of last year, the University of California Board of Regents approved the creation of an independent venture fund that would launch with $250 million...

What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future

Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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