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Hewlett Packard Opens Doors to Its HP Labs .K. Research Base
The year is 2015, and in a government-owned data centre somewhere in southern England thousands of servers are humming away, hard at work keeping the country running...
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Google Wants Ability to 'combine' Your ser Data
Google is planning to rewrite its privacy policy to grant it explicit rights to "combine personal information" across multiple products and services, the company...
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Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch dacity
Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...
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When Self-Driving Cars and the Real World Collide
Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only...
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Sign Says What? Park at Your Peril
Writing is a craft whose basic purpose is to transmit meaning, but there are certain writers who seem to have different goals in mind: patent lawyers, many poets...
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Europe's Driverless Car (driver Still Required)
Tucked away in the basement of an iconic office tower shaped like four engine cylinders, engineer Werner Huber is telling me about the joy of driving.
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Digitizing Health Records, Before It Was Cool
The push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as something...
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Warrants Needed For Gps Monitoring, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor...
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The Science of Better Science
Researchers are exploring networked computational analysis, formal classification, and topic modeling to better identify relevant scientists, ideas, and trends.
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Automobile Design for the Connected Age
Car design is in a state of flux. The designer's job used to be about tail fins and chrome. Then it was all about cup holders and plastics.
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Air Force's Top Brain Wants a 'Social Radar' to 'See Into Hearts and Minds'
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark...
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Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...
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Project Dreamcatcher
How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters' hopes and fears.
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Inside the Mind of a Video Game Champ
If there is one general rule about the limitations of the human mind, it is that we are terrible at multitasking.
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Apple Makes Push Into Ipad Textbooks
Apple Inc. on Thursday introduced tools designed to spur the development of textbooks and other classroom materials for devices like the iPad, in the company's...
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SOPA Protest Rattles Congress
Some of the early supporters of two controversial online piracy bills are having second thoughts—and other undecided lawmakers are pledging opposition—in the wake...
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Why The 'check Engine' Light Must Be Banned
It's pretty easy to dismiss the "check engine" light as just stupid, because, well, it is.
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