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Track How Technology Is Transforming Work
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Track How Technology Is Transforming Work

Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...

How World of Warcraft Can Get You a Job
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How World of Warcraft Can Get You a Job

A new study found that successful gamers had qualities that translate to success on virtual workplace teams.

Analytics Reach the Rec League
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Analytics Reach the Rec League

On a recent rainy night, about two dozen spectators gathered at an Equinox Sports Club on the Upper West Side to watch a basketball game: the X-Men vs. Almost Famous...

With Trump's Border Plans, Security and Surveillance Firms Eye Bigger Profits
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With Trump's Border Plans, Security and Surveillance Firms Eye Bigger Profits

There's a lot of excitement at the Border Security Expo in San Antonio, where vendors schmooze with government buyers and peddle their wares.

Training For the Day a Tweet Dictates Where to Send Swat
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Training For the Day a Tweet Dictates Where to Send Swat

Emergency responders in northern Texas watch as an imaginary crisis takes over their social media feeds.

Non-Flammable Graphene Membrane Developed For Safe Mass Production
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Non-Flammable Graphene Membrane Developed For Safe Mass Production

University of Arkansas researchers have discovered a simple and scalable method for turning graphene oxide into a non-flammable and paper-like graphene membrane...

Smartphone Addiction Leads to Personal, Social, Workplace Problems
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Smartphone Addiction Leads to Personal, Social, Workplace Problems

Heavy smartphone usage leads to personal, social, and workplace problems for users who feel a compulsive need to be on their phones, researchers say.

Japan Automakers Look to Robots to Keep Elderly On the Move  
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Japan Automakers Look to Robots to Keep Elderly On the Move  

Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country's rapidly...

Big Pixel Initiative Invites Public to Help Map the World
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Big Pixel Initiative Invites Public to Help Map the World

Researchers at the University of California San Diego are partnering with Columbia University and Arizona State University to create a continuous, global map of...

Communicating Robots Cooperate on Surveillance
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Communicating Robots Cooperate on Surveillance

Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around, and if necessary, interpret what they...

Report Tracks State Progress on Computer Science Ed Policies
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Report Tracks State Progress on Computer Science Ed Policies

If understanding of computer science is essential to being an informed citizen, then it makes sense that every child needs an education in the use of computing...

Skyrmions Created With a Special Spiral
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Skyrmions Created With a Special Spiral

Argonne researchers have created skyrmions — ordered regions of magnetic spins — by using a spiraling focused ion beam. 

Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.i. Ideas Into Dollars

Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...

Putting a Spin on Logic Gates
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Putting a Spin on Logic Gates

How do you build a logic gate for devices too small for classical physics? A research collaboration in Germany used vibrations in a magnetic material's collective...

Girls' Confidence, Not Math Ability, Hinders Path to Science Degrees
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Girls' Confidence, Not Math Ability, Hinders Path to Science Degrees

Girls rate their mathematics abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to researchers at Florida...

Amazon's Robot War Is Spreading
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Amazon's Robot War Is Spreading

It was Amazon that drove America's warehouse operators into the robot business.

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...

Professor's Career in Research and Outreach Earns Nsf Grant
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Professor's Career in Research and Outreach Earns Nsf Grant

Ashley Carter's work is notable both for its investigation of DNA folding and for her efforts to recruit women into STEM fields.

Csail Launches Artificial Intelligence Initiative With Industry
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Csail Launches Artificial Intelligence Initiative With Industry

The SystemsThatLearn@CSAIL industry collaboration aims to use machine learning to create functional human-like systems for data science and other fields.

How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry
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How Artificial Life Spawned a Billion-Dollar Industry

Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel...
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