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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.

Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online
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Cryptoparties Teach Attendees How to Stay Anonymous Online

Don't expect balloons and singing at a cryptoparty.

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming...

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...

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...

Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump
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Federal Workers Turn to Encryption to Thwart Trump

Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking...

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.

The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
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The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity

Henry Soto worked for Microsoft’s online-safety team, in Seattle, for eight years.

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.

Google's Harder Look at Moon Shots Seems to Be Paying Off
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Google's Harder Look at Moon Shots Seems to Be Paying Off

In the past few years, Google has become known for more than just its iconic search engine.

Artificial Intelligence ­ncovers New Insight Into Biophysics of Cancer
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Artificial Intelligence ­ncovers New Insight Into Biophysics of Cancer

Researchers using a machine-learning platform predicted a trio of reagents that was able to generate a never-before-seen cancer-like phenotype in tadpoles.

Jet Lag Hits For Power Against Major League Ballplayers
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Jet Lag Hits For Power Against Major League Ballplayers

Baseball, America's pastime, has been part of the nation’s culture for more than 140 years—we go to games, watch games on TV, and teach our kids to play.

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...

Nasa's Real 'hidden Figures'
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Nasa's Real 'hidden Figures'

In the 1960s, Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn and others absorbed the accolades of being the first men in space.
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