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Tech Workers Fear Their Jobs Will Be Automated in Wake of Virus
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Tech Workers Fear Their Jobs Will Be Automated in Wake of Virus

Technology-sector employees are more concerned than workers in other industries about being replaced by automation, KPMG says.

Rediet Abebe Is Cornell's First Black Female CS Ph.D.
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Rediet Abebe Is Cornell's First Black Female CS Ph.D.

Rediet Abebe, the first black woman to earn a doctorate at Cornell in computer science, is blazing trails not just for herself, but for others, too.

Most Employees Feel Just as Productive Working From Home
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Most Employees Feel Just as Productive Working From Home

Employees' positions within a company, living situations, and gender have a major influence on perceptions of productivity and satisfaction while working remotely...

Supercomputer Simulates Impact of Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs
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Supercomputer Simulates Impact of Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs

Using high performance computing facilities, scientists at Imperial College in London simulated the asteroid strike that hit the Earth some 66 millions of years...

Hatch Coding Wins 2020 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award
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Hatch Coding Wins 2020 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award

Hatch Coding's software won the 2020 EdTech Digest Award in the category of Coding, Computer Science, and Engineering Solution.

New Mars Landing Tech Offers Internship and Science Opportunity
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New Mars Landing Tech Offers Internship and Science Opportunity

Intern Tiffany Shi joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team this past summer testing new technology for landing NASA's next rover on Mars.

Americans Are Burned Out Working From Home
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Americans Are Burned Out Working From Home

According to a Monster.com survey, 51 percent of respondents said they are experiencing burnout working from home.

All-Girl Robotics Team in Afghanistan Works On Low-Cost Ventilator . . . With Car Parts
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All-Girl Robotics Team in Afghanistan Works On Low-Cost Ventilator . . . With Car Parts

A group of teenage girls in Afghanistan are trying to build a mechanized, hand-operated ventilator for coronavirus patients, using a design from MIT and parts from...

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem
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Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway...

Berkeley Lab Will Use Machine Learning to Estimate Covid-19's Seasonal Cycle
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Berkeley Lab Will Use Machine Learning to Estimate Covid-19's Seasonal Cycle

Berkeley Lab researchers have launched a project to assess how transmission of the novel coronavirus is influenced by climate variables, possibly waning in summer...

Germ-Zapping Robots Deactivate SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces in Two Minutes
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Germ-Zapping Robots Deactivate SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces in Two Minutes

The LightStrike disinfection robot is a pulsed xenon UV disinfection system that destroys SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in two minutes achieving a...

A Brave New Virtual World of Work?
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A Brave New Virtual World of Work?

The shift to telework is transforming the world of work, with both benefits and drawbacks, says Elizabeth Lyons, assistant professor of UC San Diego's School of...

Master's Program Targets Tomorrow's Tech Leaders
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Master's Program Targets Tomorrow's Tech Leaders

Schaffhausen Institute of Technology has created its new Master of Science program in Computer Science and Software Engineering to better prepare graduates for...

Silicon Valley Rethinks the (Home) Office
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Silicon Valley Rethinks the (Home) Office

Some tech companies are adjusting to the pandemic with new WFH perks and even letting employees ditch their commutes forever.

The OPT Program Is In Trump's Crosshairs; Schools Weigh Threat
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The OPT Program Is In Trump's Crosshairs; Schools Weigh Threat

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering suspension of the Optional Practical Training program that schools increasingly have turned to as a lifeline amid...

Academic to Develop Autonomous Vehicle Test Methodologies
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Academic to Develop Autonomous Vehicle Test Methodologies

Researchers at the University of Warwick will develop safety test methodologies for autonomous vehicles thanks to a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship worth £1.2m (USD...

Germany Will Offer Interest-Free Loans to American Students
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Germany Will Offer Interest-Free Loans to American Students

The German government is offering financial support during the pandemic for American students studying in Germany, where more than 220 English-language Master's...

Women CS Graduates Surpass Record Set 17 Years Ago
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Women CS Graduates Surpass Record Set 17 Years Ago

But percentages lag behind.

Tech 'First Responders' Support Remote Teaching Transition
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Tech 'First Responders' Support Remote Teaching Transition

IT experts in Oregon State's College of Engineering are rising to the challenge as technology "first responders," working to smooth the transition to remote teaching...

Another Threat to Universities: Falling Numbers of Graduate Students
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Another Threat to Universities: Falling Numbers of Graduate Students

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, some schools' graduate enrollment and revenues were dropping.
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