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Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?
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Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

The non-profit Girls Who Code is working with Congress to draft federal legislation to encourage U.S. states to report gender diversity data.

Amazon Pledges $700 Million to Teach Its Workers to Code
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Amazon Pledges $700 Million to Teach Its Workers to Code

Amazon announced Thursday that it will spend up to $700 million over the next six years retraining 100,000 of its U.S. employees.

Will Your Future Computer Be Made ­sing Bacteria?
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Will Your Future Computer Be Made ­sing Bacteria?

Researchers have developed a novel approach to producing graphene materials in the lab: mixing oxidized graphite with bacteria.

Cyborg-Like Microchip Powered by Living Cells
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Cyborg-Like Microchip Powered by Living Cells

Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed the first microchip valve powered by living cells.

Chinese Scientists Facing Greater Scrutiny by ­nited States
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Chinese Scientists Facing Greater Scrutiny by ­nited States

In recent months, academics of Chinese descent say they are being increasingly singled out for scrutiny.

Robot ­ses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce
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Robot ­ses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce

Engineers have developed a vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest lettuce, which is challenging to harvest mechanically.

How Electronic Skin Could Help People With Disabilities
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How Electronic Skin Could Help People With Disabilities

Researchers are developing wearable technology that could be used to control devices, receive information, and even register sensation.

Meet the Computer Scientist Who Saved Bletchley Park
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Meet the Computer Scientist Who Saved Bletchley Park

Professor Sue Black's first book, Saving Bletchley Park, details the social media campaign she led to save Bletchley Park.

The IT Talent Shortage: Separating Myths from Facts
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The IT Talent Shortage: Separating Myths from Facts

Universities and alternative education programs can't produce IT workers as quickly as needed.

Text Mining of Scientific Literature Can Lead to New Discoveries
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Text Mining of Scientific Literature Can Lead to New Discoveries

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that an algorithm with no training in materials science can scan the text of millions of papers...

Researchers Cast Neural Nets to Simulate Molecular Motion
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Researchers Cast Neural Nets to Simulate Molecular Motion

New work shows that machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics, and other...

India's First CP­s Are Ready for App Development
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India's First CP­s Are Ready for App Development

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has released the software development kit for its native Shakti RISC-V processor.

Students Are Choosing AI Over Computer Science as Job Prospects Change
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Students Are Choosing AI Over Computer Science as Job Prospects Change

Changing demand for job skills is driving students at India's IITs to enroll in advanced engineering courses in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Interns' Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements
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Interns' Job Prospects Constrained by Noncompete Agreements

Increasingly interns are being asked to sign noncompete, nondisclosure, and forced arbitration agreements that critics argue hamper young people's job opportunities...

Inside One District's Approach to Redesign STEM Education
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Inside One District's Approach to Redesign STEM Education

Teachers in Tracy, Calif. are meeting this summer to redesign the district's approach to STEM education.

Data Science Salary Survey Reveals Market Shift
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Data Science Salary Survey Reveals Market Shift

Frenzied demand for data scientists and predictive analytics professionals has gotten a little calmer over the past year, and salaries have remained relatively...

Theory Confirmation Leads to Breakthrough in Superconductor Science
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Theory Confirmation Leads to Breakthrough in Superconductor Science

A Harvard/Argonne team has cleared up a decades-old mystery about the reverse Hall effect in high-temperature superconductors.

Essential Tech Career Skills Your CS Degree May Have Missed
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Essential Tech Career Skills Your CS Degree May Have Missed

An executive panel identifies key professional skills graduates wouldn't necessarily learn in a computer science curriculum.

SoNIC Program Empowers Diverse CS Students
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SoNIC Program Empowers Diverse CS Students

Cornell University's SoNIC workshop, now in its ninth year, has exposed hundreds of minority students from across the U.S. to computer science, and to the prerequisites...

AI-Controlled Robotic Arm Packs Boxes, Cuts Costs
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AI-Controlled Robotic Arm Packs Boxes, Cuts Costs

Rutgers University computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses...
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