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Featured Story
3 years ago

Security in the Ether

Information technology’s next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud–and prove we can trust it.

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Review
3 years ago

Entangled Light, Quantum Money

A breakthrough explores the challenges–and suggests the financial possibilities–of creating quantum networks.

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Notebook
3 years ago

Cleaning Coal

Converting coal to natural gas is our best strategy for limiting carbon dioxide emissions today.

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Notebook
4 years ago

Green Nuclear

Why nuclear power should be part of the renewable-energy portfolio.

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Q&A
4 years ago

America's First CTO?

Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior tells us what role a U.S CTO should play.

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Featured Story
5 years ago

Una Laptop por Niño

The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 Laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers.

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Review
5 years ago

Patent Law Gets Saner

The Supreme Court sent a message to “patent trolls”: your paydays are numbered.

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Review
6 years ago

Nanocosmetics: Buyer Beware

Is that expensive jar of skin cream on my dresser safe to use?

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Q&A
7 years ago

Q&A: Leonard Guarente

The skinny on the fountain of youth

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Featured Story
12 years ago

The Microphotonics Revolution

Get ready for optical switching in the telecommunications network backbone, then an all-optical Internet, and finally optical integrated circuits. The amount of data we can get almost anywhere will skyrocket.

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