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China's Papers Gain Global Credibility
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China's Papers Gain Global Credibility

China's academic science papers have moved into second place for global citations, behind the United States, according to the 2017 edition of Statistical Data of...

California Legislators Make Cybersecurity Education a Top Priority
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California Legislators Make Cybersecurity Education a Top Priority

State of California educators, government, and business representatives are working together to meet demands for cybersecurity workers and create opportunities...

'we Can't Compete': Why ­niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists
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'we Can't Compete': Why ­niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists

Computer scientists are being lured from academia by a handful of companies whose offers that are hard to turn down.

How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics
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How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics

A new type of smart fabric developed at the University of Washington could pave the way for jackets that store invisible passcodes and open the door to your apartment...

Citation Is Not the Only Impact
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Citation Is Not the Only Impact

What makes good science? And how do Nature's editors select papers to publish?

Sony's Aibo Robotic Dog Is Back, with Some New Tricks
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Sony's Aibo Robotic Dog Is Back, with Some New Tricks

Sony Corp. is bringing back its iconic robotic dog, aibo.

Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives
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Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives

An international team of scientists are developing algorithms to extract the most useful information from multi-modal data in order to teach a computer system to...

Building Tomorrow's Robots
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Building Tomorrow's Robots

When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...

Report Proposes Learning Tech Inequality Solutions
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Report Proposes Learning Tech Inequality Solutions

Free and open technologies do not democratize education, though strategies exist to combat educational inequity and should be replicated, says a new report.

Does Facebook Even Know How to Control Facebook?
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Does Facebook Even Know How to Control Facebook?

Later today, executives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify about the ways that Russian operatives used...

Deleting Disparity in Computer Science
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Deleting Disparity in Computer Science

Mehul Smriti Raje, winner of the 2017 Student of Vision ABIE Award from the Anita Borg Institute, has founded a group that works to attract more women to computer...

Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot
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Behold, the World's Most Famous teapot

Martin Newell was worried about his Ph.D. research as he sat down to tea with his wife one day in 1974.

Sensor Network Captures City Data
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Sensor Network Captures City Data

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering with the city of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to develop a comprehensive sensor network and real-time visualization...

Research Team Creates Virtual Reality Surgical Simulator
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Research Team Creates Virtual Reality Surgical Simulator

Cornell College senior Nicholas Bieno and Professor of Engineering Brian Johns teamed up to create a virtual reality surgical simulator that allows doctors-in-training...

Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative

Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...

Solve These Tough Data Problems and Watch Job Offers Roll In
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Solve These Tough Data Problems and Watch Job Offers Roll In

Late in 2015, Gilberto Titericz, an electrical engineer at Brazil's state oil company Petrobras, told his boss he planned to resign, after seven years maintaining...

Why the Explosive Growth of E-Commerce Could Mean More Jobs
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Why the Explosive Growth of E-Commerce Could Mean More Jobs

When the robots came to online retailer Boxed, dread came, too: The familiar fear that the machines would take over, leaving a trail of unemployed humans in their...

'combosquatting' Attack Hides in Plain Sight to Trick Computer ­sers
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'combosquatting' Attack Hides in Plain Sight to Trick Computer ­sers

Attackers are tricking users into visiting website domains that contain familiar trademarks — but with additional words that change the destination to an attack...

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn to Scare ­s?
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Can Artificial Intelligence Learn to Scare ­s?

With Shelley, the world's first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.

Hewlett-Packard Historical Archives Destroyed in Santa Rosa Fires
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Hewlett-Packard Historical Archives Destroyed in Santa Rosa Fires

When flames incinerated hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa, Calif. earlier this month, they also destroyed irreplaceable papers and correspondence of William Hewlett...
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