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Can Russian hackers be stopped? Here's why it might take 20 years
Deterring hackers is almost impossible when the rewards are so great and the risks are so low. Can anything stop them?
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The new commute: How driverless cars, hyperloop, and drones will change our travel plans
Transportation is about to get a technology-driven reboot. The details are still taking shape, but future transport systems will certainly be connected, data-driven and highly automated.
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Exomedicine arrives: How labs in space could pave the way for healthcare breakthroughs on Earth
Space Tango's space-as-a-service model is running microgravity experiments on the International Space Station. Learn how they could power new innovations in medicine.
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How Sephora is leveraging AR and AI to transform retail and help customers buy cosmetics
Beauty retailer Sephora followed customer technology trends to command the cosmetic industry worldwide. Here's an inside look at its successful digital transformation.
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Startup Republic: How France reinvented itself for the 21st century by wooing entrepreneurs to Paris
The City of Light is cutting through a long tradition of government bureaucracy to make it easy for global companies to launch in France. TechRepublic went inside the phenomenon.
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The secret to being a great spy agency in the 21st century: Incubating startups
What happens when a top secret intelligence agency turns to entrepreneurs to help build new tools to protect a nation from cyberattacks? GCHQ found out.
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NASA's unsung heroes: The Apollo coders who put men on the moon
Learn how pioneering software engineers helped NASA launch astronauts into space, and bring them back again -- pushing the boundaries of technology as they did it.
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The state of women in computer science: An investigative report
Top colleges boast about reaching gender parity in 'intro to computer science' courses. But very few of those women go on to graduate with a CS degree. Here's why.
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Defending against cyberwar: How the cybersecurity elite are working to prevent a digital apocalypse
Cyberwar has evolved from the theoretical to the ominous. TechRepublic went inside one of the defenders vs. hackers war games that's helping countries prepare to defend themselves.
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Cyberweapons are now in play: From US sabotage of a North Korean missile test to hacked emergency sirens in Dallas
Cyberwarfare has begun. Unlike nuclear weapons, cyberweapons can be proliferated more quickly and the threat from accidentally setting them off is even greater.
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Elon Musk and the cult of Tesla: How a tech startup rattled the auto industry to its core
Tesla is one of the most innovative and controversial companies in the world. Learn how its bold mission and Elon Musk's personality created a brand that attracts both fans and critics.
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The truth about MooCs and bootcamps: Their biggest benefit isn't creating more coders
The world needs more software programmers and MooCs and coding bootcamps promise to deliver the needed skills. But as an on-ramp to becoming a developer, they have debatable value.
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Google Fiber 2.0 targets the city where it will stage its comeback, as AT&T Fiber prepares to go nuclear
As Google Fiber is sorting out its next moves, ground zero in the gigabit wars has emerged in Louisville, Kentucky, where AT&T Fiber has talked big but signed up very few gigabit customers.
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How Mark Shuttleworth became the first African in space and launched a software revolution
In an inside look at the Ubuntu founder and space pioneer, TechRepublic shows what Mark Shuttleworth has learned about innovation, cybersecurity, the future of tech, and planet Earth.
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Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI
Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?
