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The Dark Side of Helping Coworkers
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The Dark Side of Helping Coworkers

New research suggests helping coworkers in the morning can lead to mental exhaustion and self-serving behavior in the afternoon that ultimately can create a toxic...

Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots

Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...

Physical Keyboards Make Virtual Reality Typing Easier
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Physical Keyboards Make Virtual Reality Typing Easier

Computer scientists used a light-up virtual display, autocorrect algorithms, and a physical keyboard to assist head-mount-display users inputting text for home...

Your Password Is Terrible and Everyone Wants to Fix That
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Your Password Is Terrible and Everyone Wants to Fix That

Headlines about mass data breaches have become ominously routine, and yet password convenience still trumps security for most people.

CM­ Researchers Create Touchpads With a Can of Spray Paint
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CM­ Researchers Create Touchpads With a Can of Spray Paint

A team of CMU researchers can turn surfaces of a wide variety of shapes and sizes into touchpads using tools as simple as a can of spray paint.

As Cs50 Expanded, Course Materials Became More Publicly Available
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As Cs50 Expanded, Course Materials Became More Publicly Available

The enormous online popularity of Harvard's popular CS50 class made it easy for enrollees to find answers to problem sets on the Internet, potentially facilitating...

Transparent Thin Film Material Could Improve Electronics
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Transparent Thin Film Material Could Improve Electronics

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has discovered a nanoscale thin film material with high conductivity, which could lead to smaller, faster...

­ber Opening Toronto Research Hub For Driverless Car Technology
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­ber Opening Toronto Research Hub For Driverless Car Technology

University of Toronto computer science professor Raquel Urtasun will lead Uber's new research hub devoted to driverless car technology.

Reversing the Curse
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Reversing the Curse

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed mathematical techniques to advance the study of molecules at the quantum level, possibly lifting the...

Possible Cheating ­ncovered in Popular Harvard Computer Class
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Possible Cheating ­ncovered in Popular Harvard Computer Class

Multiple Harvard students, possibly more than 60, have been suspected of cheating in the wildly popular CS50 computer science course and had their cases referred...

How to Prepare For an Automated Future
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future

We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...

Envy Pushes Job Seekers to Fake Their Résumés
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Envy Pushes Job Seekers to Fake Their Résumés

Job seekers who stay in the search longer or see their peers getting hired may falsify their résumés, according to a study from the University at Buffalo School...

Researchers Personalize Chemo Treatments Via Math Modeling
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Researchers Personalize Chemo Treatments Via Math Modeling

A team of Florida State University researchers is using mathematical modeling to find the best and most effective chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients.

Google and Facebook's Idealistic Futures Are Built on Ads
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Google and Facebook's Idealistic Futures Are Built on Ads

In 2011 a young computer scientist named Jeff Hammerbacher said something profound while explaining why he'd decided to leave Facebook—and the promise of a small...

Deep Learning Is a Black Box, but Health Care Won't Mind
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Deep Learning Is a Black Box, but Health Care Won't Mind

Earlier this year, artificial intelligence scientist Sebastian Thrun and colleagues at Stanford University demonstrated that a "deep learning" algorithm was capable...

An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion

What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.

How to Survive the Digital Age? Transform the Corporation
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How to Survive the Digital Age? Transform the Corporation

The convergence of machine learning, mobile connectivity, the Internet of Things, heightened computing power, and other technologies will produce a data tsunami...

Research Shows Technology May Speed Political Polarization
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Research Shows Technology May Speed Political Polarization

Customizability technology increases selective exposure to online political news and minimizes exposure to alternate information, which may contribute to political...

Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)

What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?

Scientists Set Record Resolution For Drawing at the One-Nanometer Length Scale
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Scientists Set Record Resolution For Drawing at the One-Nanometer Length Scale

An electron microscope-based lithography system for patterning materials at sizes as small as a single nanometer could be used to create and study materials with...
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