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His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming
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His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming

Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining...

How to Find a Woman Scientist
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How to Find a Woman Scientist

A new database is fighting the poor visibility of women in STEM by offering female professionals as speakers, panelists, experts, course leaders, and advocates...

Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort
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Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort

Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...

How Nuclear Weapons Research Revealed New Climate Threats
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How Nuclear Weapons Research Revealed New Climate Threats

After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...

Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet
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Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet

When I first met John Perry Barlow, we became instant soulmates. While that sentence is true for me, it also applies to probably 10,000 other people.

New Data Reconfirms Well-Known Gender Problem in Tech
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New Data Reconfirms Well-Known Gender Problem in Tech

A recent analysis of the "tech talent migration" found that financial raises gained by technology workers when they move greatly favor men.

Inside North Korea's Hacker Army
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Inside North Korea's Hacker Army

In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...

Machine-Learning Systems: Your New Co-Workers
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Machine-Learning Systems: Your New Co-Workers

Technology is changing the way we do our jobs, and the very jobs themselves. It "will push us toward excellence," says Nirav Merchant, director of the University...

Love Actually: Computer Model May Decode Facebook Emoticons
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Love Actually: Computer Model May Decode Facebook Emoticons

Researchers at Penn State have developed a computer model that may help users and businesses navigate the increasingly complicated way people express themselves...

How I Coined the Term Open Source
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How I Coined the Term Open Source

Christine Peterson provides her account of originating the term "open source software."

How to Design a New Chip on a Budget
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How to Design a New Chip on a Budget

We recently had an interesting exchange with bunnie Huang, hardware guru and creator of Chumby, NetTV, and the Novena laptop, among other things. He's also theHacking...

From Drones to Dredgers: Stop China's Top Tech Falling Into Foreign Hands, Military Warns
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From Drones to Dredgers: Stop China's Top Tech Falling Into Foreign Hands, Military Warns

China's military has raised the alarm about the country's cutting-edge tech falling into foreign hands—as Beijing continues to come under fire from the West for...

Want Awesome Robots? You'll Have to Best These Challenges
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Want Awesome Robots? You'll Have to Best These Challenges

We are living in the midst of a profound technological restructuring of human society. The machines that once only frolicked in science fiction have begun to infiltrate...

Solving Bottlenecks in STEM Employment
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Solving Bottlenecks in STEM Employment

Filling a STEM position takes more than twice as long as any other. The most likely explanation is a lack of qualified candidates.

­.k. Government Presses Tech Companies to Sign Diversity Charter
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­.k. Government Presses Tech Companies to Sign Diversity Charter

The U.K. government is putting pressure on major technology companies to commit to interviewing at least one female candidate for new jobs. Digital Minister Margot...

Educating For Equity and Access in Computer Science
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Educating For Equity and Access in Computer Science

Jane Margolis and Julie Flapan of UCLA discuss their mission to boost the diversity of next-generation programmers and coders.

Blockchain to Track Congo's Cobalt from Mine to Mobile
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Blockchain to Track Congo's Cobalt from Mine to Mobile

Blockchain is to be used for the first time to try to track cobalt's journey from artisanal mines in Democratic Republic of Congo through to products used in smartphones...

Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel

In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

The Follower Factory
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The Follower Factory

The real Jessica Rychly is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone.

Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart

You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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