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Software Helps Spot New Forms of Fentanyl and Other Illegal Drugs
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Software Helps Spot New Forms of Fentanyl and Other Illegal Drugs

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a free algorithm for searching chemical databases that can recognize new fentanyl analogs even if...

Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.
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Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I.

There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley's biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The question...

­nlocking On-Package Memory's Effects on HPC Scientific Kernels
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­nlocking On-Package Memory's Effects on HPC Scientific Kernels

Researchers conducted a thorough experimental evaluation to discern how on-package memories affect the performance and power efficiency of high-performance computing...

The Analytics of Rehabilitation
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The Analytics of Rehabilitation

Data scientists lead the charge for more successful substance abuse treatment.

British Cyber Option to Punish Russia Prompts Fear of 'Electronic War'
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British Cyber Option to Punish Russia Prompts Fear of 'Electronic War'

Of all the ways Theresa May could hit back against Russia over the poisoning of an agent on British soil, a cyberattack seems almost fitting.

360 Video: Tour a Mars Robot Test Lab
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360 Video: Tour a Mars Robot Test Lab

NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another...

AT&T's $1 Billion Gambit: Retraining Nearly Half Its Workforce for Jobs of the Future
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AT&T's $1 Billion Gambit: Retraining Nearly Half Its Workforce for Jobs of the Future

AT&T initiated a massive retraining effort after discovering that nearly half of its 250,000 employees lacked the necessary skills needed to keep the company competitive...

Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming
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Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...

Boston Startup Is ­sing AI to Connect Job Hunters With Recruiters
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Boston Startup Is ­sing AI to Connect Job Hunters With Recruiters

Scout Exchange, a Boston startup, says it uses artificial intelligence software to connect employers to recruiters who have expertise in hiring people in a particular...

AI Builds Better Algorithms for Detecting Eye Disease
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AI Builds Better Algorithms for Detecting Eye Disease

A Google AI research group reports that artificial intelligence could improve the screening of patients for a common diabetic eye disease.

VR Could Be Your Next Painkiller
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VR Could Be Your Next Painkiller

After 10-year-old Blaine Baxter injured his arm in a go-kart accident last year, painful daily dressing changes at the hospital made him so anxious that he had...

The Autonomous 'Selfie Drone'
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The Autonomous 'Selfie Drone'

Three MIT alumni have developed an autonomous video-capturing drone that tracks and films a moving subject in any environment.

In Search of Blockchain's Killer-Apps
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In Search of Blockchain's Killer-Apps

Blockchain has been in the news lately, but beyond knowing that it has something to do with payments and digital currencies, most people don't know what blockchain...

China's Huawei Is at Center of Fight Over 5G's Future
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China's Huawei Is at Center of Fight Over 5G's Future

When top tech minds sat down to set the global standards underpinning today's cellphone networks, China was left largely on the sidelines. Companies in the West...

Does Your Code Stand ­p to Scrutiny?
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Does Your Code Stand ­p to Scrutiny?

Computer code written by scientists forms the basis of an increasing number of studies across many fields—and an increasing number of papers that report the results...

New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees
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New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley say the "iterative Random Forests" machine learning method will enables scientists to derive insights from systems of...

China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets
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China Eyes 'Black Tech' to Boost Security as Parliament Meets

At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...

China's Race for the Mother of All Supercomputers Just Got More Crowded
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China's Race for the Mother of All Supercomputers Just Got More Crowded

Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent jockey for position in the development of quantum computers, which are theoretically capable of making calculations that are orders...

Demand for Programmers Hits Full Boil as ­.S. Job Market Simmers
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Demand for Programmers Hits Full Boil as ­.S. Job Market Simmers

Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to...

'Flippy,' the Fast Food Robot, Temporarily Decommissioned for Being Too Slow
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'Flippy,' the Fast Food Robot, Temporarily Decommissioned for Being Too Slow

After a single day of working as a cook at a Caliburger location in Pasadena this week, Flippy the burger-flipping robot has stopped flipping.
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