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Knight Foundation Awards $50M to Study Tech's Impact on Democracy
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Knight Foundation Awards $50M to Study Tech's Impact on Democracy

The Knight Foundation is committing $50 million to 11 university research projects that explore technology's influence on democracy and civic trust.

Jobs of the Future Are Strange, Terrifying, and 'Don't Even Exist Yet'
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Jobs of the Future Are Strange, Terrifying, and 'Don't Even Exist Yet'

What could your future job be? Griffith University and Deakin University recently teamed up with Ford in Australia in an attempt to tackle that question. The answers...

Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web
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Making It Easier to Program and Protect the Web

MIT Professor Adam Chlipala builds tools to help programmers more quickly generate optimized, secure code.

Hackathon Winners Put End to Paper Documents with Blockchain
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Hackathon Winners Put End to Paper Documents with Blockchain

Team BlockGet won DECENT's blockchain challenge hackathon by delivering a project that would ensure dematerialization and elimination of paper documents and storage...

All-Woman Team Commands Rock-Zapping Laser on Mars
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All-Woman Team Commands Rock-Zapping Laser on Mars

An all-female engineering team is responsible for sending commands to the Curiosity rover's ChemCam instrument, which shoots Martian rocks with a laser to determine...

Governor: Teachers, Not Online Course, The Key to Computer Science Growth
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Governor: Teachers, Not Online Course, The Key to Computer Science Growth

Having a teacher in the classroom rather than offering an online course is one of the keys to increasing student interest in computer science classes, Arkansas...

Networking With Ghosts in the Machine . . . and Speaking Kettles
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Networking With Ghosts in the Machine . . . and Speaking Kettles

Researchers at Lancaster University conducted interviews with household objects as part of an experiment to understand users' relationship with the Internet of...

Research Center to Develop Technologies for the Differently Abled
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Research Center to Develop Technologies for the Differently Abled

Researchers are working on software that will help convert any English language video into sign language animations which could be deployed as teaching and learning...

Twitter Is Eroding Your Intelligence, Study Says
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Twitter Is Eroding Your Intelligence, Study Says

Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it, according to researchers at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart...

Netflix: Python Is Behind Every Film You Stream
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Netflix: Python Is Behind Every Film You Stream

Developers at Netflix say the Python programming language is behind every aspect of the company's popular streaming service.

Data Scientists Map Supply Chains of Every ­.S. City
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Data Scientists Map Supply Chains of Every ­.S. City

Maps from the FEWSION Project showing the food, energy, and water supply chains for every community in the United States are now available for public use.

Group Decision-Making: More Information Isn't Necessarily Better
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Group Decision-Making: More Information Isn't Necessarily Better

New research sheds light on the complexity of collective decision-making and uncovers new insights into the benefits of the internal structure of groups.

How WhatsApp, FaceTime and Other Encryption Apps Shaped the Outcome of the Mueller Report
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How WhatsApp, FaceTime and Other Encryption Apps Shaped the Outcome of the Mueller Report

Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed multiple contacts among Russian operatives and associates of President Trump in the report made public Thursday....

Creating a Cloak for Grid Data in the Cloud
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Creating a Cloak for Grid Data in the Cloud

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are developing tools to facilitate cloud computing for power grid operations by masking sensitive data without compromising...

Optimizing Network Software to Advance Scientific Discovery
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Optimizing Network Software to Advance Scientific Discovery

Brookhaven Lab collaborated with Columbia University, University of Edinburgh, and Intel to optimize the performance of a 144-node parallel computer and accelerate...

Spinoff Book Highlights NASA Technology Everywhere
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Spinoff Book Highlights NASA Technology Everywhere

From precision GPS to batteries for one of the world's first commercial all-electric airplanes, NASA technology turns up in nearly every corner of modern life. ...

Microsoft Partners With OpenClassrooms to Recruit and Train 1,000 AI Students
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Microsoft Partners With OpenClassrooms to Recruit and Train 1,000 AI Students

Microsoft is partnering with French online education platform OpenClassrooms to train and recruit promising students in AI and prepare them for the workplace.

Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated
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Despite Consumer Worries, the Future of Aviation Will Be More Automated

In the wake of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes of Boeing 737 Max planes, people are thinking about how much of their air travel is handled by software...

'Smart' Pajamas Could Monitor and Help Improve Sleep
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'Smart' Pajamas Could Monitor and Help Improve Sleep

Researchers have developed pajamas embedded with self-powered sensors that monitoring of heartbeat, breathing, and other factors that play a role in how well a...

Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military
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Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military

President Donald Trump and his top U.S. military adviser met with Google's CEO about concerns that Silicon Valley's AI collaborations in China may benefit the Chinese...
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