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Moocs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates
Online courses that "flip" homework and coursework using outsourced lectures could help community colleges and students, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill...
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Lack of Women in Ict Sector Costs Europe 9bn Euros a Year
The European economy is losing out on 9 billion euros annually because few women fill information and communications technology roles at tech firms.
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Putting a Face on a Robot
Older and younger people have varying preferences for whether a personal robot should have a robotic, human, or mixed human-robot face.
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Facebook's Sandberg Takes on the Tech Gender Gap
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg took aim at the gender gap in the technology industry at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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And Then Steve Said, 'let There Be an Iphone'
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.
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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Project Sonar Crowdsources a Better Bug Killer
Rapid7 chief research officer HD Moore is developing ways of identifying vulnerable Internet-facing systems and devices through scans of the Internet.
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Print a Working Paper Computer on an $80 Inkjet
A new method of printing fine lines of electronic circuitboards onto paper uses an inkjet printer loaded with ink containing silver nanoparticles.
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
M-Blocks are cube-shaped robots that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and move while suspended upside down.
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Scrambled Code Keeps Software Safe
Computer scientists have developed a "mathematical obfuscation" scheme to prevent hackers from reverse-engineering software.
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Kurzweil: The Human Brain on It
Information technology is causing the rate at which the world is changing to accelerate, says Ray Kurzweil.
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A Digital Copy of the niverse, Encrypted
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
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Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question
Is the world's first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not?
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells p to 38 Times Faster
A new approach combines computer vision and hardware optimization to sort cells up to 38 times faster than is currently possible.
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Computer Science Researchers at Texas A&m Design Video Game to Manage Stress
Researchers are developing a video game called Chill Out to help students learn stress management.
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More Than a Game
Researchers have used graphics processing units to demonstrate how to crunch certain astrophysics calculations much more quickly than conventional methods.
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