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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It

The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...

Facebook, Nodding to Its Role in Media, Starts a Journalism Project
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Facebook, Nodding to Its Role in Media, Starts a Journalism Project

Facebook is increasingly owning up to its role as one of the world’s largest distributors of information by taking more responsibility for the millions of stories...

At Ces 2017, You Have to Ask: What Makes a Robot a Robot?
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At Ces 2017, You Have to Ask: What Makes a Robot a Robot?

Tall, small, dancing, singing, cleaning, sassy, silly, cute and scary—CES 2017 was awash with robots.

Split-Second Data Mapping
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Split-Second Data Mapping

Running on GPUs instead of CPUs, the MapD database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.

­.S. Federal R&D Budget Continues ­pward Trend
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­.S. Federal R&D Budget Continues ­pward Trend

The U.S. federal budget for research and development rose for the third straight year in Fiscal Year 2016, but is still below FY 2010 levels, according to a new report...

Thanks to Ai, Computers Can Now See Your Health Problems
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Thanks to Ai, Computers Can Now See Your Health Problems

Patient number two was born to first-time parents, late 20s, white. The pregnancy was normal and the birth uncomplicated.

Medicaid's Data Gets an Internet-Era Makeover
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Medicaid's Data Gets an Internet-Era Makeover

Jini Kim's relationship with Medicaid is business and personal.

Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices
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Lining ­p For New High-Density Memory Devices

Scientists grew a vertically aligned nanocomposites lattice on with layers that exhibited strong, perpendicular (vertical) magnetic coupling, which could lead to...

MIT Media Lab to Participate in $27 Million Initiative on AI Ethics and Governance
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MIT Media Lab to Participate in $27 Million Initiative on AI Ethics and Governance

The MIT Media Lab and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society are the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at addressing the...

The Purpose of Business in the Coming Smart Machine Age
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The Purpose of Business in the Coming Smart Machine Age

Business needs a new story about its purpose to enable the kind of productive and creative activity that will become even more critical to its success in the emerging...

Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms
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Nanoparticle Catalysts Outperform Single Metal Atoms

Scientists determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms...

Team Creates Accessible Tools For Musicians with Disabilities
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Team Creates Accessible Tools For Musicians with Disabilities

Working with artists with disabilities, a team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been creating more accessible tools and instruments...

Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
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Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots

Each of these trucks is the size of a small two-story house. None has a driver or anyone else on board.

Researcher explores Earwax's Potential as Robotic Filter
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Researcher explores Earwax's Potential as Robotic Filter

Alexis Noel, a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is exploring the innovative potential of earwax as a high-tech filter for use in robotics...

What's Your 'public Credit Score'? The Shanghai Government Can Tell You
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What's Your 'public Credit Score'? The Shanghai Government Can Tell You

The Shanghai city government thinks it can make citizens more honest through a smartphone app.

Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines
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Implantable Microrobots: Manufacturing Platform Makes Intricate Biocompatible Micromachines

A team of researchers has developed a way to manufacture microscale-sized machines from biomaterials that can safely be implanted in the human body.

The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China
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The Man Selling Virtual Reality to China

One afternoon in December, Kevin Geiger was giving one of his regular talks about storytelling in virtual reality.

Apple Removes New York Times App in China 
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Apple Removes New York Times App in China 

Apple has removed the New York Times app from its store in China after a government request, in an example of how far the company will go to please the authorities...

Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks
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Computer Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors to Speed Up Computing Tasks

A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors.

Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)
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Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)

What does 2017 hold for the world of tech and media?
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