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Medicaid's Data Gets an Internet-Era Makeover
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Medicaid's Data Gets an Internet-Era Makeover

Jini Kim's relationship with Medicaid is business and personal.

Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices
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Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices

Scientists grew a vertically aligned nanocomposites lattice on with layers that exhibited strong, perpendicular (vertical) magnetic coupling, which could lead to...

Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms
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Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms

Scientists determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms...

Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
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Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots

Each of these trucks is the size of a small two-story house. None has a driver or anyone else on board.

Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines
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Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines

A team of researchers has developed a way to manufacture microscale-sized machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in the human body.

The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China
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The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China

One afternoon in December, Kevin Geiger was giving one of his regular talks about storytelling in virtual reality.

Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks
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Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks

A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors.

Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)
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Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)

What does 2017 hold for the world of tech and media?

Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains
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Intel: We'll Be Your Net-Connected, Self-Driving Car's Brains

It's go time for Intel.

Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California
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Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California

As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect.

Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals
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Electrons 'puddle' ­nder High Magnetic Fields, Study Reveals

In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, researchers used extremely high magnetic fields — equivalent to those found in...

Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?

A 3-D printing-like approach to manufacturing may help make stretchable electronics more prevalent, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology...

Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions
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Engineers Create Programmable Silk-Based Materials With Embedded, Pre-Designed Functions

Tufts University engineers have created a new format of solids made from silk protein that can be preprogrammed with biological, chemical, or optical functions,...

How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar
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How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar

Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.

The Last of New York's Commodity Trading Pits Are Closing for Good on Dec. 30
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The Last of New York's Commodity Trading Pits Are Closing for Good on Dec. 30

Starting in the late 19th century, commodities traders and brokers crammed each day into New York City's trading pits, shouting, and signaling their way to a deal...

Rewriting the Code of Life
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Rewriting the Code of Life

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.

Smart Gadgets Need Security. Startups, That's Your Cue
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Smart Gadgets Need Security. Startups, That's Your Cue

At CES next week, expect booth after booth of smart devices—and a host of approaches to their security.

Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
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Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing

Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.

Peaceful European ­nion Starts to Fund Military Research
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Peaceful European ­nion Starts to Fund Military Research

Faced with a changing world order and buffeted by a slew of political crises and terrorist attacks, the historically civilian European Union is bolstering its military...

Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit
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Honey, I Shrunk the Circuit

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have shown it's possible to make transistors and diodes from advanced semiconductor materials that could perform much better...
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