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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon.
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JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'
In honor of National Intern Day on Thursday, July 26, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is celebrating the 700 students from around the...
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DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative
Hundreds of engineers gathered at the Darpa Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit in San Francisco yesterday to hear that dozens of them were getting millions...
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School
The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people's genes and how far they get in school.
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial se of Satellite Data
While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...
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Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't
Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam.
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AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work
Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products...
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Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend.
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Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern
Computers' amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological...
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming p Details About You, And It Could Raise Your Rates
To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month's health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren't very compelling.
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten p AI in Space
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its...
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Software Beats Animal Tests at Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals
Machine-learning software trained on masses of chemical-safety data is so good at predicting some kinds of toxicity that it now rivals—and sometimes outperforms—expensive...
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China, Russia, and the US Are All Building Centers for Military AI
But their burgeoning approaches to state-sponsored research are divergent as the countries themselves.
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The S May Have Just Pulled Even with China in the Race to Build Supercomputing's Next Big Thing
There was much celebrating in America last month when the US Department of Energy unveiled Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer. Now the race is on to achieve...
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too
One of the best-selling T-shirts for the Indian e-commerce site Myntra is an olive, blue and yellow colorblocked design. It was conceived not by a human but by...
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IBM's New Do-It-All Deep-Learning Chip
The field of deep learning is still in flux, but some things have started to settle out. In particular, experts recognize that neural nets can get a lot of computation...
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