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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots

Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...

Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector
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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows plenty of high-paying technology jobs, as well as lower-end jobs that pay above average compared to the rest of the economy...

Harry Potter Coding Kit Teaches Programming with a Wand
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Harry Potter Coding Kit Teaches Programming with a Wand

The Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit from Kano teaches kids how to program a wand to perform magic spells.

Researchers May Help Validate Organ-on-a-Chip Devices
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Researchers May Help Validate Organ-on-a-Chip Devices

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists compared drug responses in the brains of rodents to drug responses of brain cells cultured in lab-developed "brain...

Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School
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Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School

The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people's genes and how far they get in school.

Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making
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Doctors Rely on More Than Just Data for Medical Decision Making

Computer scientists find that physicians' sentiments or "gut feelings" influence their utilizaton of diagnostic imaging utilization, moreso at the beginning of...

NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data

While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...

Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't
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Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't

Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam.

AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work
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AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work

Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products...

Robot Drinks Stir Man vs Machine Debate
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Robot Drinks Stir Man vs Machine Debate

A robotic arm mixes the cocktails at Ratio in downtown Shanghai, where customers choose how many shots of alcohol they want and the specific combination of liquors...

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
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Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News

When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend.

Inside India's Fake Research Paper Shops: Pay, Publish, Profit
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Inside India's Fake Research Paper Shops: Pay, Publish, Profit

India has emerged as one of the biggest markets for a business in which over 300 publishers manage so-called "predatory journals" that publish papers for a listed...

NSF Awards Support the Creation of Bio-Based Semiconductors
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NSF Awards Support the Creation of Bio-Based Semiconductors

U.S. agencies and a technology consortium are investing $12 million in research program to create storage systems that integrate synthetic biology with semiconductor...

Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern
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Microprocessor Designers Realize Security Must Be a Primary Concern

Computers' amazing abilities to entertain people, help them work, and even respond to voice commands are, at their heart, the results of decades of technological...

Microscopic Trampoline May Help Create Networks of Quantum Computers
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Microscopic Trampoline May Help Create Networks of Quantum Computers

A microscopic trampoline could help engineers to overcome a major hurdle for quantum computers, say researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the...

China's AI Industry Gets the Most Funding, But Lags the ­.S. in Key Talent
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China's AI Industry Gets the Most Funding, But Lags the ­.S. in Key Talent

China's artificial intelligence industry has attracted more funding than any other country's, but lags behind the U.S. in terms of high-level AI talent, having...

Robot Prototype Lets You Know How It 'Feels'
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Robot Prototype Lets You Know How It 'Feels'

Researchers at Cornell University developed a prototype of a robot that can express "emotions" through changes in its outer surface.

Health Insurers Are Vacuuming ­p Details About You, And It Could Raise Your Rates
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming ­p Details About You, And It Could Raise Your Rates

To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month's health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren't very compelling.

Microsoft and National Geographic Form AI for Earth Innovation Grant Partnership
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Microsoft and National Geographic Form AI for Earth Innovation Grant Partnership

Grants from Microsoft and National Geographic will support research and scientific discovery using AI technologies to advance agriculture, biodiversity conservation...

To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten ­p AI in Space
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten ­p AI in Space

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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