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Obama to nveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain
President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand...
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Researchers nveil Large Robotic Jellyfish That One Day Could Patrol Oceans
A 170-lb. autonomous robotic jellyfish is part of a multi-university project funded by the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the Office of Naval Research.
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Crowd-Funding Is Working For Open Source Projects
The company behind the LiveCode development tool has used crowd-funding to raise the money it needs (and more) to create an open source edition of its software. ...
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Moocs Strategize To Generate Revenue
MOOCs are being pressed to come up with revenue-producing business models. Are they being held to a higher standard than other Internet startups?
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You'll Never Believe the Data 'wiped' Smartphones Store
Few things are more precious, intimate, and personal than the data on your smartphone.
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.
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Holograms Add New Dimension to Fighting Fire
A researcher in Italy is combining holograms with thermal imaging to make fighting fires safer.
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Nsf Official on New Supers, Data-Intensive Future
Two supercomputers recently moved closer to their goals of advancing major human-centered scientific projects.
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Google Australia Funds Universities to Spur Computer Science
Google Australia is providing funding to 12 universities to develop workshops to help high school teachers promote computer science in their curricula.
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Could Google Tilt a Close Election?
A psychologist sees potential for a dominant search engine to sway close elections without most voters noticing.
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How the Science of Swarms Can Help s Fight Cancer and Predict the Future
The first thing to hit Iain Couzin when he walked into the Oxford lab where he kept his locusts was the smell, like a stale barn full of old hay.
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Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy's Last Safe Haven
One of the oddest bits of news to emerge from the economic collapse of Cyprus is a corresponding rise in the value of Bitcoin, the Internet’s favorite, media-friendly...
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Little-Known Surveillance Tool Raises Concerns By Judges, Privacy Activists
Federal investigators in Northern California routinely used a sophisticated surveillance system to scoop up data from cellphones and other wireless devices in an...
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Nsf-Funded Superhero Supercomputer Helps Battle Autism
Researchers are using the Gordon supercomputer to develop techniques that can be used to guide the development of treatments for mental disorders.
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'we Are the World'
Two-thirds of all available jobs in all fields of science and engineering this decade will be in computer science.
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Cyberattacks Seem Meant to Destroy, Not Just Disrupt
The criminals behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. financial companies seem intent on destroying their targets, instead of simply disrupting business operations.
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Yes, Your New Car Has A 'black Box.' Where's The Off Switch?
If you're a vehicle owner and happen to have a car accident in the near future (we hope you don't), it's likely the crash details will be recorded.
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The Future of the Internet Is Still Ads—and You're the Inventory
Ads pay for the Internet, or at least for what most of us do online.
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