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Tech Skills in Most Demand This Year: Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity
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Tech Skills in Most Demand This Year: Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity

A global recruiting firm predicts 68% of information technology employers will increase full-time IT hiring this year, while 53% will increase their use of consultants...

Software Developer Tops List of 2019 Best Jobs Rankings
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Software Developer Tops List of 2019 Best Jobs Rankings

Software developer is the top pick for best job in 2019, according to U.S. News & World Report. The position's projected increase in demand and average stress levels...

IBM Tops 2018 Patent List as AI and Quantum Computing Gain Prominence
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IBM Tops 2018 Patent List as AI and Quantum Computing Gain Prominence

IBM earned a record 9,100 U.S. patents in 2018, marking the 26th year in a row the company has been the top recipient. Samsung was second with 5,850 patents while...

Tech Giants, Gorging on AI Professors Is Bad for You
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Tech Giants, Gorging on AI Professors Is Bad for You

In an essay written in 1833, the British economist William Forster Lloyd made a profound observation using the example of cattle grazing.

Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny
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Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny

New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China's access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as...

2019's Best & Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals
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2019's Best & Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue is the top U.S. metro area for STEM professionals, according to WalletHub's 2019 rankings. Boston-Cambridge-Newton ranks second, and Pittsburgh...

Zimbabwe Computer Whizkid Breaks Barriers
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Zimbabwe Computer Whizkid Breaks Barriers

But how does someone like Bongani Jubani, born and bred in the remote area of Zimbabwe, become computer literate when they have never used a computer, let alone...

Will the World Embrace the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
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Will the World Embrace the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?

Europe-backed Plan S program aims to convince the world's major research funders to require immediate open access to all published papers stemming from their grants...

­.S. Senate Confirms Trump's Science Adviser After Two-Year Vacancy
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­.S. Senate Confirms Trump's Science Adviser After Two-Year Vacancy

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

In Memory of Lawrence Roberts
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In Memory of Lawrence Roberts

Beeeeeeep.

Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge

A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...

Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist
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Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist

An international environment forces you to consider different perspectives to begin with and helps you to communicate your ideas more clearly in the end.

Developing the Job Skills Needed for a Future Economy
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Developing the Job Skills Needed for a Future Economy

The Global Innovation Exchange, a new graduate program partnership between the University of Washington and China's Tsinghua University, with foundational support...

Silicon Valley Worker Shortage Creates ­pside-Down Labor Market
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Silicon Valley Worker Shortage Creates ­pside-Down Labor Market

Workers with a high school diploma have lower unemployment rates than those with bachelor's degrees or higher in some Bay Area counties.

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...

British-Iranian Computer Science Professor Returns Home After Detention
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British-Iranian Computer Science Professor Returns Home After Detention

Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College London who was detained in Iran in April, has returned to Britain, according to...

The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower
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The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower

On September 29, 2017, a Chinese satellite known as Micius made possible an unhackable videoconference between Vienna and Beijing, two cities half a world apart...

Two Princeton ­niversity Computer Science Professors To Lead Google AI Lab
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Two Princeton ­niversity Computer Science Professors To Lead Google AI Lab

Princeton University computer science professors Elad Hazan and Yoram Singer will lead a Google artificial intelligence lab that is scheduled to open in January...

Initiative Will Educate High School Teachers in Computer Science
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Initiative Will Educate High School Teachers in Computer Science

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched a five-year initiative that will educate and certify high school teachers to teach computer science....

China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.

In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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