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Will Banning 'killer Robots' Actually Stop Robots From Killing?
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Will Banning 'killer Robots' Actually Stop Robots From Killing?

Killer robots force questions that are set to define the coming age of automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics, researchers say.

Open-Access Automated Cars Aim to Advance Driverless Research
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Open-Access Automated Cars Aim to Advance Driverless Research

New University of Michigan research vehicles will be open testbeds for academic and industry researchers to rapidly test self-driving and connected vehicle technologies...

Glassdoor Data Reveals Widest Gender Pay Gaps in Tech
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Glassdoor Data Reveals Widest Gender Pay Gaps in Tech

The pay gap in tech is real, and wider than in many sectors. Seventy-five percent of the tech occupations we examined had gender pay gaps above the national average...

What Molecules You Leave on Your Phone Reveal About Your Lifestyle
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What Molecules You Leave on Your Phone Reveal About Your Lifestyle

A person's diet, medications, and beauty products leave molecular traces on the objects they touch, providing an unbiased, data-driven profiling method for crime...

Enabling Wireless Virtual Reality
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Enabling Wireless Virtual Reality

The MoVR system, developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, allows virtual reality headsets to communicate without a cord.

World-Leading Hpc Centers Partner to Form Accelerated Computing Institute
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World-Leading Hpc Centers Partner to Form Accelerated Computing Institute

Leaders in hybrid accelerated high-performance computing (HPC) in the United States, Japan, and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing...

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11/14/2016

increasingly high demand for their use in consumer electronics and clean energy technologies. While these materials are not actually rare, they are difficult...

Companies Bet on Designer Bacteria as New Way to Treat Disease
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Companies Bet on Designer Bacteria as New Way to Treat Disease

Sometime next year, volunteers in the U.S. could start swallowing capsules stuffed with genetically engineered E. coli.

How Data Failed ­S in Calling an Election
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How Data Failed ­S in Calling an Election

It was a rough night for number crunchers. And for the faith that people in every field—business, politics, sports and academia—have increasingly placed in the...

Trump's Big Data Mind Explains How He Knew Trump Could Win
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Trump's Big Data Mind Explains How He Knew Trump Could Win

The Associated Press had yet to call the presidential election for President-elect Donald Trump, and races in tight states like Pennsylvania and New Hampshire were...

Silicon Valley Reels in Wake of Trump's Presidential Victory
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Silicon Valley Reels in Wake of Trump's Presidential Victory

The 2016 presidential race was a powerful illustration of the influence that internet services have to shape the national political conversation.

China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition
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China Adopts Cybersecurity Law Despite Foreign Opposition

China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies' technology and hamstring their operations...

Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age
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Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age

Hoping that your next paper will be the big one?

The People's Code – Now on Code.gov
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The People's Code – Now on Code.gov

The White House has launched Code.gov to help the United States unlock the potential of the Federal Government's software.

Computational Tool May Speed Drug Discovery
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Computational Tool May Speed Drug Discovery

A new computational tool is helping scientists see beyond static images of proteins to more efficiently understand how these molecules function, which could ultimately...

Plant-Genome Hackers Seek Better Ways to Produce Customized Crops
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Plant-Genome Hackers Seek Better Ways to Produce Customized Crops

When crop engineers from around the world gathered in London in late October, their research goals were ambitious: to make rice that uses water more efficiently...

Physicist Explores Science Behind Smartphones
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Physicist Explores Science Behind Smartphones

West Virginia University physics professor Micky Holcomb is making great progress in understanding the physics behind cell phones, laptops, and other computing...

Being More Like Men Does Not Help Women in STEM Careers
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Being More Like Men Does Not Help Women in STEM Careers

Women who planned to delay marriage and limit the number of children they wanted — which would let them focus exclusively on work — didn't get the same employment...

Inside the Classroom Where San Quentin Inmates Learn to Code
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Inside the Classroom Where San Quentin Inmates Learn to Code

At San Quentin State Prison in California, inmates are barred from using the internet, and many have been serving time since before smartphones existed. But a new...

Enough Hype: U.s. Economy Needs Internet of Things to Deliver
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Enough Hype: U.s. Economy Needs Internet of Things to Deliver

In the world of making everyday life more digital, something is starting to tip. You can see it at Noyes Air Conditioning Inc. on Monday mornings.
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