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Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector
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Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector

Joysticks at their fingertips, the mostly male students packing the classroom lift their virtual helicopters into the air, part of a new cottage industry that's...

Obama Seeks $4 Billion to Reboot Tech Education
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Obama Seeks $4 Billion to Reboot Tech Education

President Obama's "Computer Science for All" initiative would bolster state funding for technology classes in public schools.

The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting
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The Strange Rituals of Silicon Valley Intern Recruiting

The Wozniak Lounge, located on the northern side of campus at the University of California, Berkeley, looks like it was decorated by engineers, to the extent that...

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
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Larry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief

Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...

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.

Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist
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Sarah Parcak, Space Archaeologist

Sarah Parcak can see looting at ancient sites—from space.

'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...

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...

Professor Brings Complicated Math to the Masses
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Professor Brings Complicated Math to the Masses

It's not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert...

GM Asks Friendly Hackers to Report Its Cars' Security Flaws
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GM Asks Friendly Hackers to Report Its Cars' Security Flaws

As automotive cybersecurity has become an increasingly heated concern, security researchers and auto giants have been locked in an uneasy standoff.

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...

How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation
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How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation

The young programmer had an idea, and everyone thought it was nuts.

Filling in Digital Blanks of Historic Texts
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Filling in Digital Blanks of Historic Texts

Engineering students at Northwestern University have come to the rescue of the marred and sometimes indecipherable words that populate the translated versions...

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...

The Death of American Research and Development
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The Death of American Research and Development

When rumors began to fly about a merger between chemical giants Dow Chemical  and DuPont , it was obvious the deal was not your ordinary fee-driven scheme dreamed...

Grandfather of Vr: The Virtual Can Show the Beauty of the Real
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Grandfather of Vr: The Virtual Can Show the Beauty of the Real

Thomas Furness is known as the pioneer who stood at the inception of what we know today as virtual reality.

Sharing Best Practices For Getting Published in Science
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Sharing Best Practices For Getting Published in Science

A panel of editors, students, and faculty recently convened at MIT to discuss aspects of scientific publishing including open access, innovative models of peer...

Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded By Silicon Valley Investors
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded By Silicon Valley Investors

A group of prominent Silicon Valley investors and technology companies said on Friday that they would establish an artificial-intelligence research center to develop...
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