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February 2014 Issue

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February 2014 Issue

There are many paths to an exciting job as an engineer

The bankrupt giant found that its huge trove of IP could fetch only pennies on the dollar

Direct laser writing creates metamaterial structures small enough to manipulate visible light

Baseball-fanatic-turned-engineer Mark Perry develops systems to track pitches and swings

Sigloch’s algorithms reveal the hidden forces that shape the world

Otherlab’s Leila Madrone is trying to make solar power finally work

Inside Sony’s lab for utterly impractical electronic wonders

Meet the man who keeps SpaceX’s rockets on track

How a former engineer left his mark on magazine journalism

The CEO of the embattled start-up is aiming at the heart of cable television

The PandaX project will look for dark matter in the heart of a marble mountain

Piz Daint masters both speed and efficiency by keeping data close to its processors

Germany takes the lead in making the Internet local

Laparoscopic pressure sensors make 3-D maps of tumors

Walking around a metropolis will never be the same

Corporations are paying for the world's most famous free operating system

Get a pilot’s-eye view from a remote-controlled aircraft

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