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Carnegie Mellon to Study Ethical Issues Posed By Artificial Intelligence
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Carnegie Mellon to Study Ethical Issues Posed By Artificial Intelligence

As ethical and policy issues surrounding artificial intelligence and other computing technologies take center stage, K&L Gates LLP has made a $10 million gift to...

Web Pioneer Tries to Incubate a Second Digital Revolution
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Web Pioneer Tries to Incubate a Second Digital Revolution

Brian Behlendorf knows it's a cliché for veteran technologists like himself to argue that society could be run much better if we just had the right software.

Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law
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Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law

Even after you don a bunny suit and get deep inside Fab 8, it's hard to get a sense of scale.

We Went to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Here's What We're Bringing Back
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We Went to the Grace Hopper Celebration. Here's What We're Bringing Back

Members of The New York Times Developers recently made their first group trip to the Grace Hopper Celebration. At 15,000 attendees, GHC is the world's largest gathering...

Robotic Cleaning Technique Could Automate Neuroscience Research
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Robotic Cleaning Technique Could Automate Neuroscience Research

A robotic technique for cleaning the tiny patch-clamp pipettes that record signals from brain neurons could facilitate a new level of automation in neuroscience...

The Stakes Are Rising in Google's Antitrust Fight With Europe
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The Stakes Are Rising in Google's Antitrust Fight With Europe

Google is locked in a six-year battle with Europe's antitrust officials. And the stakes for both sides are getting higher.

Controversial Chinese Cybersecurity Law Enters Home Stretch For Approval
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Controversial Chinese Cybersecurity Law Enters Home Stretch For Approval

A controversial Chinese cybersecurity law that has sparked protests from foreign governments and business groups neared approval on Monday as parliament held the...

Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.
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Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.

Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...

Inclusion Increases Innovation at Brookhaven Lab
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Inclusion Increases Innovation at Brookhaven Lab

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory hosted a two-day workshop focused on diversity and inclusion's role in innovation and discovery.

Collaboration Yields Open Source Technology For Computational Science
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Collaboration Yields Open Source Technology For Computational Science

The gap between the computational science and open source software communities just got smaller — thanks to an international collaboration among national laboratories...

How AI Is Shaking ­p the Chip Market
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How AI Is Shaking ­p the Chip Market

In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.

IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money For It
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IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money For It

Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence?

Pppl Physicists to Lead a Doe Exascale Computing Project
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Pppl Physicists to Lead a Doe Exascale Computing Project

Scientists at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will take part in the Exascale Computing Project initiative with a focus on developing exascale-related...

Making Computers Explain Themselves
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Making Computers Explain Themselves

Researchers at MIT have described a new way to train neural networks so that they provide not only predictions and classifications but rationales for their decisions...

What Do Kids Really Need to Know About Computer Science?
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What Do Kids Really Need to Know About Computer Science?

The K–12 Computer Science Framework aims to make computer science welcoming to all students — including female, black, Hispanic and other kids who have been disproportionately...

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element Ai, a Deep-Learning Incubator
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AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element Ai, a Deep-Learning Incubator

Yoshua Bengio, one of the leading figures behind the rise of deep learning, is launching a Silicon Valley-style startup incubator dedicated to this enormously influential...

Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous

There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.

Researchers Look to Strengthen 'internet of Things' Security
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Researchers Look to Strengthen 'internet of Things' Security

Indiana University researchers have received $1.8 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to ensure that door locks, lightbulbs, cameras, and other common...

The Next Generation of Scholarly Publishing
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The Next Generation of Scholarly Publishing

Concordia University launches the first open-access academic press in Quebec.

Can A Brain-Computer Interface Convert Your Thoughts To Text?
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Can A Brain-Computer Interface Convert Your Thoughts To Text?

A device could decode a person's thoughts into actual speech or written words could be a game-changer for those with speech pathologies or for patients who lack...
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