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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.

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...

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.

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...

Trump Cracks Down on H-1b Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley
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Trump Cracks Down on H-1b Visa Program That Feeds Silicon Valley

The U.S. administration began to deliver on President Donald Trump's campaign promise to crack down on a work visa program that channels thousands of skilled overseas...

Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1b Visas
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Computer Programmers May No Longer Be Eligible For H-1b Visas

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly over the weekend released new guidance that computer programmers are no longer presumed to be eligible for H-1B...

Silicon Valley's Spooked By Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity
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Silicon Valley's Spooked By Trump and Mexico Sees an Opportunity

There's a tech-loving governor in Mexico who sees opportunity in the hassles the Trump administration might create for companies eager to hire foreign engineers...

Investors Bet on a Quiet Tech Revolution in Europe
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Investors Bet on a Quiet Tech Revolution in Europe

It's not banking or mining shares, but rather technology stocks, that have come up trumps in Europe this year and are poised to end the first quarter as the best...

Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs

Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?

Elon Musk Is Setting Up a Company that Will Link Brains and Computers
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Elon Musk Is Setting Up a Company that Will Link Brains and Computers

Billionaire futurist space explorer Elon Musk has a new project: a "medical research company" called Neuralink that will make brain-computer interfaces.

The Trump Administration's War on Science
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The Trump Administration's War on Science

"Think of the marvels we can achieve if we simply set free the dreams of our people," President Trump said in his speech to Congress last month, after summoning...

Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse

It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...

Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer
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Sorry, a Robot Is Not About to Replace Your Lawyer

Impressive advances in artificial intelligence technology tailored for legal work have led some lawyers to worry that their profession may be Silicon Valley's next...

This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets
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This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets

Serial entrepreneur Andrew "Bunnie" Huang believes that consumer product companies should make their hardware designs publicly available so that anyone can study...

Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias
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Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias

Employers increasingly rely on datasets and algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired, or promoted. But algorithms that rely on inaccurate, biased, or unrepresentative...

Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?
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Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?

Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to the shelves of Walmart, where he...

Laid-Off It Workers Worry ­.s. Is Losing Tech Jobs to Outsourcing
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Laid-Off It Workers Worry ­.s. Is Losing Tech Jobs to Outsourcing

IT workers laid off by the University of California, San Francisco and replaced by an Indian outsourcing firm are concerned that high-paying positions may be a...

Nsa Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears
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Nsa Risks Talent Exodus Amid Morale Slump, Trump Fears

The National Security Agency risks a brain-drain of hackers and cyber spies due to a tumultuous reorganization and worries about the acrimonious relationship between...

How the Media Are ­sing Encryption Tools to Collect Anonymous Tips
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How the Media Are ­sing Encryption Tools to Collect Anonymous Tips

There was a time when a whistleblower had to rely on the Postal Service, or a pay phone, or an underground parking garage to leak to the press.

To Keep ­.s. Jobs, Chip Makers Share a Factory and Pin Hopes on Trump
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To Keep ­.s. Jobs, Chip Makers Share a Factory and Pin Hopes on Trump

Nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains here, the IM Flash plant is a paragon of American high-tech manufacturing.
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