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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Online Images Amplify Gender Bias
The rising use of images in online media and platforms significantly exacerbates gender bias, both in its statistical prevalence and its psychological impact, researchers...
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Universities Train Engineers for the Quantum Future
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing...
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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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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.
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Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair
In 2015, a worried father asked Rhema Vaithianathan a question that still weighs on her mind.
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Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed
The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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China Enters the Battle For AI Talent
A mountainous district in western Beijing known for its temples and mushroom production is tipped to become China's hub for industries based on artificial intelligence...
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Giant Telescope's Mobile-Phone 'dead Zones' Rile South African Residents
A map showing how mobile-phone use might be restricted because of a giant radio telescope in South Africa has angered people who will live near the instrument—deepening...
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The Shape of Work to Come
Last year, entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun set out to augment his sales force with artificial intelligence.
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Image Doctoring Must Be Halted
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
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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...
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Track How Technology Is Transforming Work
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...
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The Power of Prediction Markets
It was a great way to mix science with gambling, says Anna Dreber.
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...
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Digital Forensics: From the Crime Lab to the Library
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...
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