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Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals
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Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals

Peer-reviewed academic journals are grappling with submissions in which authors may have used generative AI to write outlines, drafts, or even entire papers, but...

Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?
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Why Is It So Hard for Scholars to Launch Startups?

STEM scholars with startup dreams struggle to find support.

When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal
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When Colleges Offer Coding Boot Camp, Students Can Get a Raw Deal

Universities boost revenue by partnering with for-profit boot camp providers, which are unregulated and rarely externally vetted.

Layoffs Broke Big Tech's Elite College Hiring Pipeline
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Layoffs Broke Big Tech's Elite College Hiring Pipeline

Students from top schools used to waltz from Silicon Valley internships into lucrative jobs. Now, some are reconsidering their options.

The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace

Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego, believes technology can make the world a better place — and she knows in 2022, that makes her a bit...

Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
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Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center

Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru has launched the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute that she says will ask questions others won't about the responsible...

Anna Lytical Is a TikTok Star Teaching Coding In Drag
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Anna Lytical Is a TikTok Star Teaching Coding In Drag

Aiming to demystify STEM subjects and bring much-needed diversity to the field, Anna Lytical teaches coding on YouTube and TikTok.

The AI Research Paper Was Real. The 'Coauthor' Wasn't
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The AI Research Paper Was Real. The 'Coauthor' Wasn't

An AI researcher at IBM found his name on two papers with which he had no connection.

Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech
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Many Top AI Researchers Get Financial Backing From Big Tech

More than half of tenure-track AI faculty at four prominent universities have received funding from Big Tech, which could distort the academic landscape, researchers...

Tech Workers Are Living the American Dream – in Canada
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Tech Workers Are Living the American Dream – in Canada

The immigration policies of the U.S. administration are driving top talent north of the border.

More Students Are 'Stacking' Credentials en Route to a Degree
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More Students Are 'Stacking' Credentials en Route to a Degree

The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is giving non-traditional education programs, known variously as "stackable credentials" or "microcredentials," a...

Coders Who Survived Human Trafficking Rewrite Their Identities
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Coders Who Survived Human Trafficking Rewrite Their Identities

At a Bay Area nonprofit, former abuse victims learn to code and level up their futures.

The Professors Who Call 'BS' on Covid-19 Misinformation
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The Professors Who Call 'BS' on Covid-19 Misinformation

University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are policing Twitter feeds, Medium posts, and other sources of bad data and misleading charts. ...

Python Is More Popular Than Ever
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Python Is More Popular Than Ever

Python tied for second place in RedMonk's latest ranking of programming language popularity, marking the first time that a language other than JavaScript or Java...

A Coding School Tuition Model Spreads to Four-Year Colleges
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A Coding School Tuition Model Spreads to Four-Year Colleges

Income share agreements first gained popularity with tech bootcamps. Now some traditional U.S. universities are offering the tools as substitutes for student loans...

These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain
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These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain

A growing number of academics turned entrepreneurs is trying to build new blockchains from the ground up to address the mismatch between the innovation's excitement...

For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
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For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic

"Tech has solved some of the world's biggest challenges, but it hasn't cracked the one closest to home: toxic, sexist workplace culture," says Girls Who Code founder...

Robots Alone Can't Solve Amazon's Labor Woes
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Robots Alone Can't Solve Amazon's Labor Woes

As Amazon scrambles to automate its warehouses to boost efficiency, it's creating a new human-robot hybrid workforce.

Amazon Pledges $700 Million to Teach Its Workers to Code
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Amazon Pledges $700 Million to Teach Its Workers to Code

Amazon announced Thursday that it will spend up to $700 million over the next six years retraining 100,000 of its U.S. employees.

Another Ripple From the Huawei Ban: Scientific Peer Review
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Another Ripple From the Huawei Ban: Scientific Peer Review

The Trump administration's decision to blacklist Chinese telecom giant Huawei is spilling over into academia. IEEE publications will stop using Huawei employees...
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