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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...

The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia...

Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors
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Tech Giants Hit by NSA Spying Slam Encryption Backdoors

A coalition of Silicon Valley tech giants has doubled down on its criticism of encryption backdoors following a proposal that would give law enforcement access...

Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account
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Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account

Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's...

Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War
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Why Silicon Valley Must Go to War

Should technologists prevent their tools from being used to wage war? This question was answered with a furious yes at Google recently, when more than 3,000 employees ...

Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership
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Most Americans Look to Research Universities for Innovation Leadership

A survey from the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation found that 71 percent of Americans believe research universities are a "major force" in driving...

Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform
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Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform

In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup.

Football Star Tackles Computer Science
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Football Star Tackles Computer Science

USC student-athlete Yoofi Quansah balanced sports and academics, training 20 hours per week while earning his bachelor's and master's computer science degrees in...

Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future
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Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future

With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these days, you might think the practice of charging...
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