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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan
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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan

There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane....

The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened. No One Noticed.
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The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened. No One Noticed.

The digital revolution in higher education has happened.

How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class
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How to Get Students to Stop ­sing Their Cellphones in Class

Almost all college students have a cellphone. They use them an average of eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average of every 15 to 20 minutes while they're...

The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly

Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."

To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife

Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.

Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India
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Fury and Fear in Ohio as It Jobs Go to India

The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio, offices learned of their fates game-show style.

Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot
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Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot

Don't think a robot could take your job?

Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in ­.s.

Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...

From Army of One to Band of Tweeters
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From Army of One to Band of Tweeters

It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.

The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph

To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.

Inside the Economics of Hacking
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Inside the Economics of Hacking

Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.

Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding

Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...

Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android
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Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android

Since it first appeared in Apple's App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and...

Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors

In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...

The Hot New Job in Silicon Valley Is Being a Robot's Assistant
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The Hot New Job in Silicon Valley Is Being a Robot's Assistant

"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.

What Excites Ceo Larry Page About Alphabet? Wi-Fi Beaming Balloons
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What Excites Ceo Larry Page About Alphabet? Wi-Fi Beaming Balloons

Alphabet, formerly Google, is a Wonka factory of tech projects.

Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable
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Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable

"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs...

The Room Where the Internet Was Born
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born

Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.

Computational Strategy Finds Brain Tumor-Shrinking Molecules
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Computational Strategy Finds Brain Tumor-Shrinking Molecules

University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a computational strategy to search for molecules that could be developed into glioblastoma drugs.

Apple's Deep Learning Curve
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve

In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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