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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern

When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...

The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life

Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.

Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?

A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...

Measuring Happiness on Social Media
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Measuring Happiness on Social Media

University of Iowa computer scientists found that Twitter users' feelings of long-term happiness and satisfaction with their lives remained steady over time, consistent...

The Rise of China's Millionaire Research Scientists
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The Rise of China's Millionaire Research Scientists

The Chinese government's push to put science and technology at the forefront of the nation's development is creating new breed of highly-paid scientific academics...

Robots Can Lift, Drive, and Chat, But Are They Safe and Trustworthy?
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Robots Can Lift, Drive, and Chat, But Are They Safe and Trustworthy?

MIT Professor Emeritus Thomas B. Sheridan says the time is ripe for human factors researchers to contribute scientific insights to tackle the many challenges of...

Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants

A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.

The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents
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The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents

Researchers from Colorado State University used non-polarized light to produce a spin voltage — a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual...

Researchers Explain How Stereotypes Keep Girls Out of Computer Science Classes
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Researchers Explain How Stereotypes Keep Girls Out of Computer Science Classes

Stereotypes are a powerful force driving girls away from STEM fields. Even though stereotypes are often inaccurate, children absorb them at an early age and are...

What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like

Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.

Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'

Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.

Outwitting Poachers With Artificial Intelligence
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Outwitting Poachers With Artificial Intelligence

Researchers are using artificial intelligence and game theory to solve wildlife poaching, illegal logging, and other problems worldwide.

Apple Services Shut Down in China in Startling About-Face
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Apple Services Shut Down in China in Startling About-Face

For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China. Capture too much market share or wield too much influence, and Beijing...

Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite
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Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite

NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...

Numerical Simulations Shed New Light on Early ­niverse
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Numerical Simulations Shed New Light on Early ­niverse

Computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory simulates conditions during the first few minutes of cosmological evolution to model the role of neutrinos...

Google is Funding Screenplays That Change the Image of Computer Science
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Google is Funding Screenplays That Change the Image of Computer Science

Google wants to help change the way computer science is depicted in the media, so the company is funding a new grant for screenwriters.

Rules For Cyberwarfare Still ­nclear, Even as ­.s. Engages In It
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Rules For Cyberwarfare Still ­nclear, Even as ­.s. Engages In It

When Defense Secretary Ashton Carter landed in Iraq for a surprise visit this week, he came armed with this news: More than 200 additional U.S. troops are headed...

All Powered ­p
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All Powered ­p

Researchers from University of California, Irvine have invented a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving closer...

Robotic Consensus
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Robotic Consensus

MIT researchers will describe at ICRA 2016 a decentralized planning algorithm for teams of robots that factors in both stationary and moving obstacles.

Who's the Michael Jordan of Computer Science? New Tool Ranks Researchers' Influence
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Who's the Michael Jordan of Computer Science? New Tool Ranks Researchers' Influence

Last fall, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington, launched a challenge to Google Scholar, PubMed, and other online search engines...
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