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Optics & Photonics Jul 26, 2017

Rail-like waveguides simplify miniaturizing photonic components on silicon wafers

High-speed optical circuits and sensors generally require strict control over light polarization to minimize loss and cross-talk in photonic devices such as waveguides. An A*STAR team now predicts that noise resulting from ...

Business Jul 21, 2017

Silicon Valley investors embrace a new vision of college

Make School, a for-profit startup in this city's South of Market district, is one of the most unusual schools in the country: It lets students enroll in classes for free if they agree to pay later after they land a job.

Business Jul 14, 2017

Silicon Valley reeling in wake of sexual harassment storm

It started with a few women speaking up, reporting a suggestive text message, an invitation to a hotel room, an unwanted touch under a table.

Engineering Jul 10, 2017

Researchers revolutionize brain-computer interfaces using silicon electronics

Today, implanted electrode devices for stimulating the brain are extremely crude devices with only a handful of electrodes that are used to mitigate the effects of Parkinson's, epilepsy, and other neurodegenerative conditions. ...

Business Jul 10, 2017

As US high tech surges, Silicon Valley becomes a diplomatic outpost

Sometime in August, Denmark's newly appointed ambassador to high tech will settle into Silicon Valley and staff his embassy, a novel kind of diplomatic outpost that recognizes the global clout that U.S. high tech companies ...

Business Jul 9, 2017

Growing chorus denounces sexist Silicon Valley culture

A growing chorus of voices denouncing sexist culture is echoing through male-dominated Silicon Valley, knocking a number of internet industry executives from their perches.

Quantum Physics Jul 7, 2017

Physicists devise new approach to manipulate silicon 'qubits'

During their research for a new paper on quantum computing, HongWen Jiang, a UCLA professor of physics, and Joshua Schoenfield, a graduate student in his lab, ran into a recurring problem: They were so excited about the progress ...

Business Jul 3, 2017

Silicon Valley's sexism problem: Could the tide be turning?

Sexism in Silicon Valley has been an open secret for years. What's changing: A growing number of women are coming forward with personal stories of sexual harassment and discrimination, prompting apologies, resignations and ...

Business Jul 2, 2017

Silicon Valley investors taking heat over sexual harassment

Sexism in Silicon Valley may be coming in for a reckoning, prompted by women coming forward with stories of sexual harassment by industry bigshots. Apologies, resignations and self-reflection have followed, although it's ...

Business Jun 29, 2017

Silicon-on-Seine: world's biggest tech incubator opens in Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the world's largest start-up incubator in central Paris on Thursday, taking the city a step closer to fulfilling its ambition of becoming Europe's technology capital.

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