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AI and 'enormous Data' Could Make Tech Giants Harder to Topple
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AI and 'enormous Data' Could Make Tech Giants Harder to Topple

Another week, another record-breaking AI research study released by Google—this time with results that are a reminder of a crucial business dynamic of the current...

The Quantum Computer Factory That's Taking on Google and IBM
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The Quantum Computer Factory That's Taking on Google and IBM

A few yards from the stockpile of La Croix in the warehouse space behind startup Rigetti Computing's offices in Fremont, California, sits a machine like a steampunk...

Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI

Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...

Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War
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Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War

A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. "Incoming. Take cover," it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.

Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out
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Can the American Heartland Remake Itself in the Image of Silicon Valley? One Startup Finds Out

Ross Diedrich had gone pale and raw-boned. The CEO of a year-old startup in Denver, he'd stay at his office until the middle of the night, go home and sleep for...

If an AI Doesn't Take Your Job, It Will Design Your Office
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If an AI Doesn't Take Your Job, It Will Design Your Office

Arranging employees in an office is like creating a 13-dimensional matrix that triangulates human wants, corporate needs, and the cold hard laws of physics: Joe...

Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming
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Why You Should Put Your Supercomputer in Wyoming

Travel just a few miles west of bustling Cheyenne, Wyoming, a you'll find yourself in big-sky country.

I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into

Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...

The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here
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The Battle For Top AI Talent Only Gets Tougher From Here

Andrew Ng helped create two of Silicon Valley's leading artificial intelligence labs.

The Former Secretary of Defense Outlines the Future of Warfare
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The Former Secretary of Defense Outlines the Future of Warfare

To an engineer in Silicon Valley, the Defense Department can look a little old, a little slow, and a little fat.

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming...

Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent
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Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent

Google is building a new artificial intelligence lab in Montreal dedicated to deep learning, a technology that's rapidly reinventing not only Google but the rest...

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...

Hardware Giants Hope the Past Can Save Their Future
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Hardware Giants Hope the Past Can Save Their Future

HP. Dell. EMC. Intel. The giants of computer hardware aren't what they were ten years ago.

Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics

Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."

Here's How IBM Is Planning to Use Its Own Blockchain Software
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Here's How IBM Is Planning to Use Its Own Blockchain Software

Bitcoin may still bring to mind images of clandestine drug markets and anarchist hackers bent on liberating finance from financial companies. But some of the world’s...

The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step

In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...

A Texas Jury's Guilty Verdict Should Worry It Admins
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A Texas Jury's Guilty Verdict Should Worry It Admins

If you're a systems administrator working in the United States, a recent decision from 12 Texan jurors should give you a moment of pause before you next hit the...

Techies Are Trying to Turn the Nba Into the World's Biggest Sports League
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Techies Are Trying to Turn the Nba Into the World's Biggest Sports League

In 2014, the Los Angeles Clippers were just getting used to being a good basketball team.

Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution
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Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution

The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...
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