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Rosie or Jarvis: The Future of the Smart Home Is Still in the Air
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Rosie or Jarvis: The Future of the Smart Home Is Still in the Air

The tech industry once again can't decide: When it comes to the home of the future, will it have a centralized computer telling you when to mop floors, clean windows...

IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
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IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings

There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.

Death By Robot
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Death By Robot

Imagine it's a Sunday in the not-too-distant future.

Putting the Mobile Into Automobile
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Putting the Mobile Into Automobile

In 2007, Bill Gates stepped onstage at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to help introduce Sync, a combination GPS navigator, digital music...

Israel's Water Ninja
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Israel's Water Ninja

Amir Peleg hunches his broad, 6-foot-3-inch frame into a tunnel leading to one of several reservoirs that supply water to Jerusalem.

The Biggest Cyberthreat to Companies Could Come From the Inside
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The Biggest Cyberthreat to Companies Could Come From the Inside

Companies spend billions of dollars each year to protect from determined hackers attacking from across the Internet, but experts warn they shouldn't ignore a closer...

Nasa Robot Plunges Into Volcano to Explore Fissure
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Nasa Robot Plunges Into Volcano to Explore Fissure

Volcanoes have always fascinated Carolyn Parcheta.

Students Engineer Foot-Powered Phone Charger
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Students Engineer Foot-Powered Phone Charger

A pair of Case Western Reserve University engineering students are field-testing their foot-powered cell phone charger this week in rural villages of the Kingdom...

What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables
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What Do Consumers Want? Better Batteries, Not Wearables

The top tech need on the mind of most Americans isn't sharper televisions, smarter watches.

A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers

Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.

How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow
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How to Design the Fighter Cockpit of Tomorrow

If you think your office needs a lick of paint and some new furniture, spare a thought for fighter pilots.

The Space Missions and Events We're Most Looking Forward to in 2015
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The Space Missions and Events We're Most Looking Forward to in 2015

This year will be another exciting one for space exploration.

This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers
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This Year's Ces Anxiety: Ending ­p Like Tv Makers

The International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas’s annual gadget cornucopia, kicks off this week.

Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds
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Brainstormers: Obama's Big Research Push Kicks Off With a Meeting of the Minds

The motley group included men and women, old and young, in sweatshirts and three-piece suits, shod in socks and sandals, wingtips and heels.

''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors
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''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors

A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...

E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships
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E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships

Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.

Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching
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Whether Working or Job Seeking, the Algorithm Is Watching

Are you perusing LinkedIn at work more than usual?

Google Lunar Xprize: Astrobotic's Rover Rakes in $750,000
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Google Lunar Xprize: Astrobotic's Rover Rakes in $750,000

It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.

Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
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Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles

The ​Daily Paywall is a new website that's loaded with tens of thousands of pirated articles from some of the world's top paywalled newspapers, and its proprietor...

The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine

Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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