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Sharing Personal Info Can ­ndermine Some Workplace Relationships
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Sharing Personal Info Can ­ndermine Some Workplace Relationships

Disclosing personal information in the workplace can negatively affect a high status worker's relationship and task effectiveness with lower status coworkers, according...

Google Expands Howard West to Train More Black Coders
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Google Expands Howard West to Train More Black Coders

Howard University and Google with expand their Howard West academic partnership to cover the full academic year beginning fall 2018, boosting the three-month pilot...

Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth
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Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth

The 2018 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication, released Tuesday, features 49 technologies the agency helped create that are used in almost every facet of...

Researchers Create Digital Map of Carlsbad Cavern
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Researchers Create Digital Map of Carlsbad Cavern

University of Arkansas researchers are using laser imaging to create a highly accurate, three-dimensional digital map of public trails inside Carlsbad Cavern.

5 Ways Election Interference Could (and Probably Will) Worsen in 2018 and Beyond
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5 Ways Election Interference Could (and Probably Will) Worsen in 2018 and Beyond

If you thought 2016 was bad, just wait for the sequel.

Mechanics Will Soon Need a Degree in Computer Science to Work On Your Car
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Mechanics Will Soon Need a Degree in Computer Science to Work On Your Car

Training for automotive mechanics is in the middle of a revolution as cars become more computerized. The good ol' days of being a gear head are over.

How Pixar's Cartoon Cheese Led to a Smarter View of Science
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How Pixar's Cartoon Cheese Led to a Smarter View of Science

Ten years ago, a chunk of animated cheese in Pixar's "Ratatouille" captured the imagination of cell biologist Janet Iwasa. So much so that it changed the way she...

Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule
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Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule

Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...

Rise of the Supercomputers: South Korea Rushes to Boost AI
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Rise of the Supercomputers: South Korea Rushes to Boost AI

China, Japan, and South Korea are flexing their muscles in the supercomputing arena.

The Dnc's New Chief Security Officer Knows All About Crisis
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The Dnc's New Chief Security Officer Knows All About Crisis

The Democratic National Committee has hired Bob Lord, most recently Yahoo's head of information security, to be its chief security officer—a brand new position,...

Shake-­p at Facebook Highlights Tension in Race For AI
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Shake-­p at Facebook Highlights Tension in Race For AI

Facebook's hiring of French artificial-intelligence trailblazer Yann LeCun in 2013 to start its AI Research lab signaled that the social-media giant was serious...

Want a More Diverse Workforce? Hire Bootcamp Graduates
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Want a More Diverse Workforce? Hire Bootcamp Graduates

Coding bootcamps are producing more than double the number of graduates as the U.S.'s largest traditional CS programs, and those graduates are far more diverse....

The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech
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The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech

Maria Klawe has done what tech has not. For the past 11 years, she has served as the president of Harvey Mudd College­, where the number of women in its computer...

Harvard Student Helps Crack Mystery of Inca Code
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Harvard Student Helps Crack Mystery of Inca Code

It's a mystery that has left many scholars flummoxed.

Don't Let Hr Say You Can't Afford a Head of AI
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Don't Let Hr Say You Can't Afford a Head of AI

Companies need to start breaking bank to win over artificial intelligence experts from the tech giants—but it's worth it.

Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees
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Why Robots Should Shake the Bejeezus Out of Cherry Trees

I don't think sci-fi saw this coming. For so long, futuristic books and films have promised us robots like C-3PO that translate alien languages and assist us in...

State Schools to Make Computer Science a Core Subject
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State Schools to Make Computer Science a Core Subject

State education leaders in Massachusetts are planning to make computer science a core course for high school students, making completion of the class a requirement...

The ­.s. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking
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The ­.s. Drops Out of the Top 10 in Innovation Ranking

The U.S. dropped out of the top 10 in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index for the first time in six years, mainly due to a slump in post-secondary education efficiency...

China's Breathtaking Transformation Into a Scientific Superpower
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China's Breathtaking Transformation Into a Scientific Superpower

The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial "Science & Engineering Indicators," a voluminous document describing...

Four to Beam ­p
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Four to Beam ­p

The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has for the first time delivered electron beams simultaneously to four experimental...
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