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CS­ Campuses Receive $7.1M to Support STEM Educators
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CS­ Campuses Receive $7.1M to Support STEM Educators

Six California State University campuses earned U.S. National Science Foundation funding to support educational opportunities for math and science majors pursuing...

UTA Technology Could Change the Way Computers Dissipate Heat
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UTA Technology Could Change the Way Computers Dissipate Heat

University of Texas at Arlington researchers have received a patent on a novel cold electron transistor that drastically reduces the amount of energy required to...

Framework Designed to Accelerate Drug Discovery Wins Computing Challenge
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Framework Designed to Accelerate Drug Discovery Wins Computing Challenge

A software framework recognized by the IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge could revolutionize drug design by supporting accurate and rapid calculations...

How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can

A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy.

HP Will Pay Hackers ­p to $10,000 to Break Their Printers
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HP Will Pay Hackers ­p to $10,000 to Break Their Printers

HP announced its first bug bounty program that specifically targets its printers, offering as much as $10,000 to hackers who can find vulnerabilities on its machines...

The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
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The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks

In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...

Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars
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Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars

Listen, I get it. You want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. (Sort of.) And the plan—it's good.

DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
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DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics

The U.S. military agency is worried the United States could lose its edge in semiconductor chips.

Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth
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Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth

Scientists from the Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology have developed a 2-D/3-D scanning system with the intelligent data processing mechanism which helps...

The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal

In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...

Helping Computers Perceive Human Emotions
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Helping Computers Perceive Human Emotions

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning model that takes computers a step closer to interpreting human emotions as naturally as people do.

China's AI Focus Will Leave U.S. in the Dust, Professor Says
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China's AI Focus Will Leave U.S. in the Dust, Professor Says

China is leading the global race for supremacy in artificial intelligence and financial technologies, says Tsinghua University Professor Steven White.

One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars
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One Woman's Math Could Help NASA Put People on Mars

Kathleen Howell never aspired to walk on the moon. 

JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'
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JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'

In honor of National Intern Day on Thursday, July 26, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is celebrating the 700 students from around the...

Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia
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Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia

Educators and academic groups fear that the Trump administration's additional scrutiny of Chinese citizens seeking visas could alienate talented applicants and...

Inside Google's Shadow Workforce
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Inside Google's Shadow Workforce

About half of Google's workers are contractors who don't receive the same benefits as direct employees.

Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto

Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...

DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative
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DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative

Hundreds of engineers gathered at the Darpa Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit in San Francisco yesterday to hear that dozens of them were getting millions...

Scientists Perfect Technique to Boost Capacity of Computer Storage a Thousandfold
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Scientists Perfect Technique to Boost Capacity of Computer Storage a Thousandfold

Silicon-based atomic-scale devices are poised to increase capacity of solid-state storage drives 1,000-fold due to techniques perfected at the University of Alberta...

Are ­niversities Training Socially Minded Programmers?
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Are ­niversities Training Socially Minded Programmers?

Courses that explore the ethical implications of emerging technologies are cropping up across the United States.
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