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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire

Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.

The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality
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The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality

Over the course of the last two decades, Bryan Carter has built a small city. Well, it’s more of a neighborhood, really.

What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That
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What's It Like at a Top-Tier Conservatory? There's an App For That

The world of education has become a rapidly expanding universe.

U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research
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U.s. 'export Rules' Threaten Research

The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...

Halo and the Hololens: Microsoft Teases Its Virtual World at E3 2015
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Halo and the Hololens: Microsoft Teases Its Virtual World at E3 2015

Despite being a billion-dollar industry, the future of video games remains murky.

Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight
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Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight

Researchers propose a potential new way to maintain communication with re-entering spacecraft and other vehicles by matching resonance of the communication antenna...

No One Questions Google's Ability to Innovate, So Why Do Its Moonshots Look Like Money Pits?
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No One Questions Google's Ability to Innovate, So Why Do Its Moonshots Look Like Money Pits?

Consider a question that we have been puzzling over at the World Economic Forum.

Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living
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Sidewalk Labs, a Start-­p Created By Google, Has Bold Aims to Improve City Living

Google's ambitions and investments have increasingly broadened beyond its digital origins in Internet search and online advertising into the arena of physical objects...

How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market

It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, it has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head.

IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream
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IBM Wants to Push Spark, Real-Time Big Data Tool, Into Mainstream

International Business Machines Corp. has thrown its weight behind Spark, an increasingly popular tool that is used to analyze large amounts of data in real time...

Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?
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Can Phone Data Detect Real-Time Unemployment?

A new study shows that mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people's communications patterns change when they...

Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age

To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.

Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing
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Cyber Citizen Tool Shows Which Countries' Laws Cover Our Surfing

"Where am I?" In the real world, it's an easy question to answer. Online, things can get more complicated.

Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet
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Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet

When you hear the word "Internet," what do you picture in your mind?

U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016

The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...

Apple's Biggest Breakthrough That Almost No One Knows About
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Apple's Biggest Breakthrough That Almost No One Knows About

Ask the average Apple fan to make a list of the important moves the company has made in the past year or so, and the list will probably start with the Apple Watch...

Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink
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Image Software Spots Links in Tattoo Ink

In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...

Apple's Latest Selling Point: How Little It Knows About You
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Apple's Latest Selling Point: How Little It Knows About You

Apple wants its devices to know everything about you. But more than ever, it wants you to know that Apple doesn't know what those devices know.

Beam It Up Densely: Transporting Quantum Information
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Beam It Up Densely: Transporting Quantum Information

A team of scientists has taken quantum teleportation — a method of communicating information from one location to another — to a higher level by using high-dimensional...

Connected Cows, Cars and Crockery Prod Chip Mega Mergers
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Connected Cows, Cars and Crockery Prod Chip Mega Mergers

Chip companies are merging, signing $66 billion worth of deals this year alone in preparation for an explosion of demand from all walks of life as the next technological...
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