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MIT Tops Qs World University Rankings
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MIT Tops Qs World University Rankings

For the sixth year running, MIT sits atop the 2018 QS World University Rankings. Notable developments include six Chinese universities in the top 100 for the first...

Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts

It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...

Software Tool to Detect Fake Online Profiles
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Software Tool to Detect Fake Online Profiles

People who use fake profiles online could be more easily identified, thanks to a new tool developed by computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh.

Spintronic Switch Pitched as Alternative Computing Paradigm
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Spintronic Switch Pitched as Alternative Computing Paradigm

A researcher at UT Dallas has designed a spintronic switch made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today's electronic...

The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned
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The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned

America's top patent and trademark official has abruptly resigned from her post.

Bringing Native Students Into STEM Fields
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Bringing Native Students Into STEM Fields

Three schools in South Dakota will continue collaborative efforts to encourage more Native American students to enter science, technology, engineering, and math...

Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI

Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...

AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest

In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...

Thomas Zacharia Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Thomas Zacharia Named Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thomas Zacharia, the computing visionary whose work turned Oak Ridge National Laboratory into a global supercomputing power, has been selected as the laboratory's...

How to Prepare the Next Generation For Jobs in the AI Economy
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How to Prepare the Next Generation For Jobs in the AI Economy

If the next generation is to use AI and big data effectively, we need to prepare them now. That will mean some adjustments in elementary education and some major...

Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students

To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...

Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving
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Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving

Research from the University of Iowa indicates that even simple cell phone conversations can affect the brain's ability to focus on the roadway.

How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide

"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...

The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It
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The Hard Truths of Navigating Ageism in It

Widespread age discrimination has become a central issue affecting many people working or seeking work in today's IT industry, according to legal and career experts...

Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?
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Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?

RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?

Ibm Research Alliance Builds New Transistor For 5-Nm Technology
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Ibm Research Alliance Builds New Transistor For 5-Nm Technology

IBM and its research partners have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5-nanometer chips, paving the way...

Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...

20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess

Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.

Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video
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Gaze ­pon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video

Latest view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft from Enneagon on Vimeo.

Teaching Robots 'manners'
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Teaching Robots 'manners'

DARPA-funded researchers have created a cognitive-computational model of human norms in a representation that can be coded into machines, clearing a path to the...
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