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Data Mining Reveals How Social Coding Succeeds (and Fails)
The process of developing software has undergone huge transformation in the last decade or so.
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Replay: New Wizardry Keeps Pinball Rolling in the Internet Age
At the recent Battle at Stonehedge pinball tournament here, Jessie Carduner cursed her ninth-place finish and vowed to get professional help.
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Researcher Loses Job at Nsf After Government Questions Her Role as 1980s Activist
Federal investigators say Valerie Barr lied during a background check, which led the U.S. National Science Foundation to cancel her temporary assignment.
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Printing Houses on the Moon
How do you create structures on other worlds when the expense of carrying building materials there is so great?
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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The Revolutionary Technique That Quietly Changed Machine Vision Forever
Computer researchers say machines are now almost as adept at recognizing objects as humans, thanks to an algorithm created by University of Toronto scientists in...
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Apple's Swift Language Achieves 1.0 Release Milestone
Apple says it has achieved version 1.0 status for its new Swift programming language, and the company is now accepting apps that use Swift in the App Store.
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Stanford Engineer Aims to Connect the World With Ant-Sized Radio
Stanford engineers say they have created a radio the size of an ant they think will be the key to creating the connected world of the Internet of Things.
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As Software and Hardware Advance Together, the Next Innovation Wave Rises
As processors and sensors have become smaller and found their way into everything from cars to traffic lights to smoke detectors, software developers have kept...
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Nasa to Send Sample-Return Mission to Earth-Bound Asteroid
NASA has long wanted to send a mission to Mars to grab some of its surface and sling it back to Earth.
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Where to Grab Space Debris
Objects in space tend to spin—and spin in a way that's totally different from the way they spin on earth.
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Kbase Harnesses Gene Data For Researchers
A computational platform developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's national research laboratories will make complex analysis of gene data more efficient.
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'smart Genes' Prove Elusive
Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog.
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.
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Google Is Target of European Backlash on .s. Tech Dominance
A top German official called for Google to be broken up.
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Smartphones Pioneered For se in Parkinson's Disease Detection
Researchers are working to make it possible to use smartphones to collect information on how the symptoms of degenerative diseases change on an hourly basis.
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Google Glass Can Now Track Your Stress Level
Researchers say they have developed a new method for using Google Glass to track a user's stress level and provide instant fitness feedback.
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China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System With Near-Perfect Accuracy
The Chinese Academy of Science plans to unveil a face-recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy next year.
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Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds
A new study has found that crowdsourcing competitions produce some of the worst competitive tendencies in people.
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