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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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ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
Workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk and other crowd-work platforms are the latest group to face accusations of using large language models like ChatGPT as a shortcut...
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Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants
HireVue, a provider of software that screens job candidates based on an algorithmic assessment, is killing off the controversial feature of its software that analyzes...
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Gamemakers Inject AI to Develop More Lifelike Characters
Researchers from Electronic Arts and the University of British Columbia are using a machine learning technique to speed up the videogame development process by...
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Watson's Creator Wants to Teach AI a New Trick: Common Sense
David Ferrucci built a computer that mastered Jeopardy! Since then, he's been attacking a more challenging task.
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DARPA Wants to Solve Science's Replication Crisis With Robots
DARPA has promised $7.6 million to a nonprofit organization that's leading the charge to fix the "reproducibility crisis" in science.
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Trump's Plan to Keep America First in AI
The US leads the world in artificial intelligence technology. Decades of federal research funding, industrial and academic research, and streams of foreign talent...
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Don't Fear the Robot Overlords; Embrace Them as Coworkers
In a chilly warehouse just outside of Boston, the brute toils away. It's 600 pounds of orange and black metal and whirring motors, a massive robotic arm that picks...
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The Ingredients Powering the DOD's New Nonlethal Weapons
We may never know whether Cuba attacked American diplomats with microwave weapons—but we do know similar devices exist.
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Why the Search for Aliens Could nite s Here on Earth
If aliens are trying to talk to us (or even if they are not), Jill Tarter will be the one to find them.
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Germany's Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech on Track
Of the many acronyms engineers spend their lives internalizing, few are more valuable than KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Constrain the problem, reduce the variables...
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Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
Chris Monroe's vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them.
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Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars
Listen, I get it. You want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. (Sort of.) And the plan—it's good.
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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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The Pentagon Is Building a Dream Team of Tech-Savvy Soldiers
Nicole Camarillo was touring the Army base at Fort Meade, Maryland, in early 2017 when a young captain—I'll call him Matt, due to the sensitivity of his position—crossed...
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Pain Is Weird. Making Bionic Arms Feel Pain Is Even Weirder
Pain is an indispensable tool for survival.
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How One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other
Just six months after joining Apple, Sal Soghoian's job was already on the line.
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Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working on It
Better batteries mean better products. They give us longer-lasting smartphones, anxiety-free electric transport, and potentially, more efficient energy storage...
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Microsoft Charts Its Own Path on Artificial Intelligence
Time wasa software companies left inventing new hardware to others.
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Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup.
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When John Doerr Brought a 'Gift' to Google's Founders
On a fall day in 1999, in the heart of Silicon Valley, I arrived at a two-story, L-shaped structure off the 101 freeway. It was young Google's headquarters, and...
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