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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
MIT researchers have implemented in silicon a system for defending against memory-access attacks.
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Homeland Security Is Laying Roots in Silicon Valley, and You Might Not Like Its Reasons
The Department of Homeland Security plans to open an office in California's Silicon Valley to recruit talent from the technology sector and build relationships...
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Materials Scientists Put New Spin on Computing Memory
A group of researchers from Drexel University is trying to make computer memories smaller, denser, and more energy conscious with help from a new class of materials...
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Security Professionals Stymied by Outdated Visualization Tools
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...
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Machine Dreams
There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum
Iowa State University researchers are developing a computer security literacy curriculum designed for middle school and high school students.
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays...
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future
Researchers have developed an X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries which could improve...
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These Robots Serve Up Cocktails, but Can They Tell If You've Drunk Too Much?
Some robots assemble cars or iPhones. Others vacuum floors or roam Amazon.com warehouses.
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Science and Engineering Graduate School Enrollment Increases
The number of full-time graduate students enrolled in science and engineering programs in the United States rose by 2.4 percent in 2013, due largely to a 7.9 percent...
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Climate Scientists Join Search for Alien Earths
The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists.
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Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies
Wichita State University and Kansas State University are working together with the Federal Aviation Administration to minimize the risk associated with operating...
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Iran Cyber Attacks on the Rise
A team of researchers reports that Iran is emerging as a significant cyberthreat to the United States and its allies, and says Iranian-backed digital attacks targeting...
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The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the 'Hard' Out of Hardware
In a converted pipe organ factory in the city’s Mission District, Saul Griffith works on products that are smarter, cheaper and, above all, squiggly.
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Thumbnail Track Pad
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a new wearable device that turns the user's thumbnail into a miniature wireless track pad.
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Fateful Phone Call Spawned Moore's Law
In their new book, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, authors Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock and Rachel Jones chronicle...
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