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1. Uncle Sam wants you — to hack the Pentagon.
By Christopher Lynch in TechCrunch
2. Bad cops often stay on the street. Here’s a plan to end that problem.
By Sarah Childress at Frontline
3. Should Harvard use its $36 billion endowment to make tuition free?
By the Economist
4. Could we modify genes to make them disease-proof?
By Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review
5. To harvest power on rainy days, these solar panels convert vibrations from rainfall to energy.
By Aaron Turpen in Gizmag

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