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The Enduring Legacy of Zork
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The Enduring Legacy of Zork

In 1977, four recent MIT graduates who'd met at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science used the lab's PDP-10 mainframe to develop a computer game that captivated...

End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers

The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...

A Cancer 'atlas' to Predict How Patients Will Fare
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A Cancer 'atlas' to Predict How Patients Will Fare

Understanding the genetic changes in tumors that distinguish the most lethal cancers from more benign ones could help doctors better treat patients.

What the Announced nsa / Cyber Command Split means
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What the Announced nsa / Cyber Command Split means

The move to elevate Cyber Command to a full Unified Combatant Command and split it off from the National Security Agency or NSA shows that cyber intelligence collection...

The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe

In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....

The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
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The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American

The technology world's $400 billion-and-up club—long a group of exclusively American names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon—needs to make room...

'it Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them
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'it Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them

For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.

Scientists Debate How to Bring Red Planet Rocks to Earth
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Scientists Debate How to Bring Red Planet Rocks to Earth

With NASA's sample-caching 2020 Mars rover mission just around the corner, the best strategy for hauling Red Planet rock and dirt to Earth is a now a topic of considerable...

Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees
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Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees

Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it...

Reverence For Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation
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Reverence For Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation

Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds—1,500 a minute, to be exact—on humming...

China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All

Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.

Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent
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Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent

Defense Secretary James Mattis has a lot on his mind these days. North Korea, obviously. China's expanding claims on the South China sea. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...

Nasa Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets
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Nasa Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets

NASA has selected six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals for concept studies.

Chicago Maps Its ­nderground Maze
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Chicago Maps Its ­nderground Maze

James Jackson has a problem: He doesn't know what he's getting into.

Meet the Company That's ­sing Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene
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Meet the Company That's ­sing Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene

In China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.

D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
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D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm

Not much about Makoto Koike's adult life suggests that he would be a farmer.

'i Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day' 
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'i Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day' 

After the full repeal of Obamacare stalled in the Senate last month, one of the sharpest and most-shared online rebukes of the Republican turncoats came from one...

Wild New Microchip Tech Could Grow Brain Cells on Your Skin
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Wild New Microchip Tech Could Grow Brain Cells on Your Skin

It's usually bad news to have something growing on your skin, but new technology uses that all important layer as a sort of garden to "grow" whatever types of cells...

How This U.s. Tech Giant Is Backing China's Tech Ambitions
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How This U.s. Tech Giant Is Backing China's Tech Ambitions

As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping.

Andrew Ng Spreads the Gospel of AI With a New Online School
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Andrew Ng Spreads the Gospel of AI With a New Online School

Andrew Ng is a soft-spoken AI researcher whose online postings talk loudly.
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