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Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked Tvs
For media executives, there may be nothing worse than a viewer or listener who is not counted.
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Google Searches For Style
Google is in discussions with online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker to create a more stylish version of its Google Glass frames.
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Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain
The Obama administration is planning a project to create a comprehensive map of the human brain.
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Nanotubes Seen as Alternative When Silicon Chips Hit Their Limits
A microelectronic circuit composed of 44 transistors made from carbon nanotubes demonstrates that nanotubes could be the best successor to silicon-based chips.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...
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Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
What do computer programmers and illegal immigrants have to do with each other?
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Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...
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Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast
Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived...
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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The Origins of 'big Data': An Etymological Detective Story
Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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Hackers in China Attacked The Times For Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters...
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...
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Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
A book by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology economists argues that the pace of automation is accelerating and robotics development is taking away jobs from...
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Facebook's Other Big Disruption
Facebook made a potentially game-changing announcement.
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Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
Zhang Xiaoping’s mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.
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Scientists Develop Device For Image Compression
Duke University researchers are using a new class of artificial materials, called metamaterials, to design a sensor that compresses images much more efficiently...
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