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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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Data Miners Dig For Answers About Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and 'go Set a Watchman'
Literature researchers used data science to investigate long-standing debates about the work of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman...
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
Dreadlocked programmer has spooked the FBI by creating a tool that police cannot crack.
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IBM Researchers Try to Measure Employee Well-Being Using Technology
Researchers at IBM and the Delft University of Technology are working to develop computer systems that could help foster well-being among employees. The project...
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Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes
Some hospitals are using a big-data approach to mine intensive-care unit data to help providers and patients realize improved outcomes.
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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Girls Who Code From Around Globe
Iridescent's Technovation World Pitch Challenge is an opportunity for pre-college girls with an interest in technology entrepreneurship to win $20,000 in seed funding...
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When Does a Hack Become an Act of War?
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.
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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...
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Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education
Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller hopes her online education platform will expand globally.
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.
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New Computer Bug Exposes Broad Security Flaws
An international team has discovered an Internet bug that enables an attacker to trick a Web browser into believing it is using a regular key rather than the export...
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Google's Vint Cerf Warns Against Fragmentation of Internet
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...
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Hadoop Corporate Adoption Remains Low: Gartner
For all the talk of Hadoop's potential to help companies leverage Big Data, corporate adoption remains low, a survey released today from Gartner Inc. found.
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Robots, Hungry for Power, Are Too Weak to Take Over the World
Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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