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It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual Reality Goggles.
There was a time when biochemists had a lot in common with sculptors.
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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...
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China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
America is now home to the world's speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
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Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89
Frank Heart, who supervised development of the first routing computer for the precursor to the Internet, has passed away.
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Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps p on the Ryugu Asteroid
Here's the mission for Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft in a nutshell: Fly to a carbon-rich asteroid between the orbits of Earth and Mars, study it for a year and a...
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The Supreme Court Takes On the Police Use of Cellphone Records
The Supreme Court has handed down what may be the most important privacy case of the digital era, ruling on Friday that the government cannot force cellphone service...
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In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You
The camera perched above the bus stop sends back a continuous feed from the corner of 16th Avenue and South 18th Street in Newark's West Ward.
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ZTE's Near-Collapse May Be China's Sputnik Moment
Once derided as a technology backwater and copycat, China is justifiably proud of its technology boom.
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Move Over, China: .S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer
The United States just won bragging rights in the race to build the world's speediest supercomputer.
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Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Dies at 81
Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game...
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How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold down two demanding jobs simultaneously: head...
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The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law
The new European data privacy legislation is so stringent that it could kill off data-driven online services and chill innovations like driverless cars, tech industry...
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.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules
American news outlets including The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Arizona Daily Star abruptly blocked access to their websites from Europe on Friday...
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Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ber Car's Fatal Crash
More than a second before a self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in March, the vehicle's computer system determined it needed to brake...
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Silicon Valley Faces Regulatory Fight on Its Home Turf
The staging ground for one of the biggest regulatory fights facing the technology industry is far removed from Washington or Brussels, tucked into an alley next...
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Why A.I. and Cryptocurrency Are Making One Type of Computer Chip Scarce
Two technology booms—some people might call them frenzies—are combining to turn a once-obscure type of microprocessor into a must-have but scarce commodity.
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local niversities
At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...
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Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference
Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the...
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