Physics Division Undergraduate Intern - Fall 2024 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.
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A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
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The President Wants Every Student to Learn Computer Science. How Would That Work?
President Obama used his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to reflect on his legacy. But he also put forth some specific proposals for his remaining...
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Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike
No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings.
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Autonomous Car Makers Hand Over Data on Glitches and Failures to California Dmv
If you want to build a self-driving car and test it on public roads in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says that every year you have to submit...
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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GM Asks Friendly Hackers to Report Its Cars' Security Flaws
As automotive cybersecurity has become an increasingly heated concern, security researchers and auto giants have been locked in an uneasy standoff.
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.s. Meets Tech Leaders, Forms Task Force to Fight Online Militants
The Obama administration on Friday sent its top national security officials to meet tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley and announced a new task force to counter...
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Ncar Announces Powerful New Supercomputer For Scientific Discovery
The National Center for Atmospheric Research as selected its next supercomputer for advancing atmospheric and Earth science, following a competitive open procurement...
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Drones Aren't Just Toys Anymore
When you think of a certain kind of drone—the quadcopter, not those UAVs running missions in Waziristan—you might picture overeager dads abandoning their Christmas...
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Automakers, Not Silicon Valley, Lead in Driverless Car Patents: Study
Automakers, not technology companies, are in the driver's seat in developing self-driving, "autonomous" cars, and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp is best positioned to...
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Harnessing the Energy of Small Bending Motions
Researchers at MIT have developed an electrochemical-based method of generating electrical power that could harvest energy from a broad range of natural motions...
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Learning to Apply Data Science to Business Problems
One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...
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How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation
The young programmer had an idea, and everyone thought it was nuts.
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What's He Building in There? The Stealth Attempt to Defeat Aging at Google's Calico.
Talk about a headline that sings. "Google vs. Death." The Time magazine cover story from September 2013 heralded the creation of California Life Company, or Calico...
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Machines That Learn Like People
Researchers at MIT have developed a machine-learning system based on a computational model of visual representation that could make highly reliable object discriminations...
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence, and the Imminent Robot Future
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's unclear, but I know for sure that every kid dreams of intelligent, thinking robots—certainly every kid who goes on to...
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Teaching Machines to See
Two newly-developed systems for driverless cars can identify a user's location and orientation in places where GPS does not function, and identify the various components...
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The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.
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