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Some Hard Numbers on Science's Leadership Problems
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Some Hard Numbers on Science's Leadership Problems

Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses.

India Leads in Number of Students Opting for Science, Tech Degrees
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India Leads in Number of Students Opting for Science, Tech Degrees

India leads the world in the number of students getting bachelors degrees in STEM subjects, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development's Technology...

White House Eliminates Top Cyber Adviser Post 
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White House Eliminates Top Cyber Adviser Post 

The Trump administration has eliminated the White House's top cyber policy role, jettisoning a key position created during the Obama presidency to harmonize the...

Inside Google, a Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?
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Inside Google, a Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?

Last July, 13 U.S. military commanders and technology executives met at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley outpost, two miles from Google headquarters.

Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed
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Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed

The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...

Popular Encrypted Email Standards Are ­nsafe - European Researchers
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Popular Encrypted Email Standards Are ­nsafe - European Researchers

European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked, leading them to urge people using them...

Three-Year College Degree Programs Get an 'F' Grade, Report Says
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Three-Year College Degree Programs Get an 'F' Grade, Report Says

Schools offering three-year bachelor's degrees to counter the rising costs of college education are failing students, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins...

Computer Languages Cannot Teach the Skills Kids Learn in Foreign Language Classes
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Computer Languages Cannot Teach the Skills Kids Learn in Foreign Language Classes

The Texas State Board of Education has adopted criteria to change high school graduation requirements to allow advanced computer science courses to replace foreign...

The White House Just Started An AI Task Force
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The White House Just Started An AI Task Force

The Trump administration has announced a new AI task force that will promote American artificial intelligence efforts.

Who Pays the Most, and Least, in Silicon Valley?
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Who Pays the Most, and Least, in Silicon Valley?

How much do workers at tech firms make?

NSF-Funded Program to Train New Generation of Quantum Engineers
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NSF-Funded Program to Train New Generation of Quantum Engineers

Funded by a $1.6 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Harvard University...

Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution in Hurricane Forecasting
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Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution in Hurricane Forecasting

A dramatic increase in computing power helps explain the dramatic increase in hurricane forecast accuracy over the past 20 years.

Japan Seeks Its Economic Mojo in the Stuff That Makes the Stuff
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Japan Seeks Its Economic Mojo in the Stuff That Makes the Stuff

There is absolutely nothing sexy about bellows. But they just might be the future of Japan.

Video Games Provide Outlet for Empathy, Dialogue, and Increased Self-Awareness, Designer Says
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Video Games Provide Outlet for Empathy, Dialogue, and Increased Self-Awareness, Designer Says

Doris C. Rusch of DePaul University's Deep Games Lab helped create games such as "Blood Myth," which examines sickle cell anemia; "Zombie Yoga" about anxiety; and...

Shortage of Talent Hits Chinese Chipmakers
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Shortage of Talent Hits Chinese Chipmakers

China needs at least 400,000 more employees working in the integrated circuit industry to reach its goal of boosting the industry fivefold before 2030, according...

Wild Card Entrants Join IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition
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Wild Card Entrants Join IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition

Three Wild Card teams are joining the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition designed to develop and apply AI to a society's grand challenges.

If Knowledge Is Power, Then Coders Will Inherit the Earth
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If Knowledge Is Power, Then Coders Will Inherit the Earth

Fereshteh Forough and Barbara Liskov discuss their respective approaches to programming and computer science, the challenges and opportunities of being a woman...

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities

At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...

The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other
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The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other

Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...

What the Life and Death of Cambridge Analytica Tells ­s about Politics, and Ourselves
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What the Life and Death of Cambridge Analytica Tells ­s about Politics, and Ourselves

The demise of Cambridge Analytica this week may bring a fleeting sense of relief to those worried about personal data being used to shape how they vote, or even...
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