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Microsoft Reorganizes to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses
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Microsoft Reorganizes to Fuel Cloud and A.I. Businesses

The Windows era at Microsoft, long in eclipse, is officially history.

The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World
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The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World

Chris Urmson led Google's self-driving car team from its early days all the way until the company shed its Google skin and emerged under the Alphabet umbrella as...

Nvidia Co-founders Remember Their Startup Roller Coaster Ride
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Nvidia Co-founders Remember Their Startup Roller Coaster Ride

A startup competition at Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) held in San Jose this week sent Jensen Huang and his Nvidia co-founder Chris Malachowsky on a...

Computer Searches Telescope Data for Evidence of Distant Planets
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Computer Searches Telescope Data for Evidence of Distant Planets

As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which data from volunteers searching telescopic...

For the ­.S. and China, a Technology Cold War That's Freezing Over
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For the ­.S. and China, a Technology Cold War That's Freezing Over

A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier.

How the AI Cloud Could Produce the Richest Companies Ever
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How the AI Cloud Could Produce the Richest Companies Ever

For years, Swami Sivasubramanian's wife has wanted to get a look at the bears that come out of the woods on summer nights to plunder the trash cans at their suburban...

Top Schools for AI: Study Ranks Leading ­.S. Grad Programs
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Top Schools for AI: Study Ranks Leading ­.S. Grad Programs

A new study of the top graduate programs for artificial intelligence in the United States reveals which universities are poised to lead the AI revolution.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

'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.

Engineering Jobs That Autonomous Cars Have Given Rise To
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Engineering Jobs That Autonomous Cars Have Given Rise To

Investment in driverless vehicle research has reached record levels and along with it comes new job opportunities. Hardware and software engineers have lots of...

Proposal Recommends AI Training in China's Primary, Secondary Schools
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Proposal Recommends AI Training in China's Primary, Secondary Schools

AI courses and experience centers shoud be established in both primary and secondary schools in China, a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress told the...

Don't Blame China, Mr. President. Blame the Robots.
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Don't Blame China, Mr. President. Blame the Robots.

Mr. President, if you're looking for someone to demonize for killing blue-collar jobs in your favorite industries, don't blame China and "bad trade deals." Blame...

Most Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs)
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Most Americans See Artificial Intelligence as a Threat to Jobs (Just Not Theirs)

The vast majority of Americans expect artificial intelligence to lead to job losses in the coming decade, but few see it coming for their own position.

Flippy, a Robotic Kitchen Assistant, Cooks Burgers in California
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Flippy, a Robotic Kitchen Assistant, Cooks Burgers in California

Flippy, an autonomous robotic kitchen assistant, is working alongside kitchen staff flipping burgers at CaliBurger in Pasadena, Calif.

AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People
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AI's Dirty Little Secret: It's Powered by People

There's a dirty little secret about artificial intelligence: It's powered by hundreds of thousands of real people.
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