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Forget Learning to Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication
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Forget Learning to Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication

While automation is requiring workers to maintain technical fluency, the top priority for developing talent is to train for soft skills, according to LinkedIn's 2018...

Apple's China Lesson: Think Different, But Not Too Different
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Apple's China Lesson: Think Different, But Not Too Different

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government's showcase global business forum next month, underscoring his increasingly high profile...

Intuition In The Age Of Information
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Intuition In The Age Of Information

Data may rule the digital age, but it cannot completely replace gut instinct and business experience, says Professor Li Yan of ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific...

How Social Networking Sites Can Crack Down on Cyberbullying
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How Social Networking Sites Can Crack Down on Cyberbullying

A Cornell research team has discovered a way to encourage people to intervene in cases of cyberbullying on social networking sites.

Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs
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Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs

I took an Uber to an artificial-­intelligence conference at MIT one recent morning, and the driver asked me how long it would take for autonomous vehicles to take...

­.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology
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­.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology

United States officials have torpedoed a Chinese state-backed group's plan to buy an American electronics company, signaling the Trump administration's continuing...

Tech for Military Vehicles May Protect Against Blast-Induced Brain Injury
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Tech for Military Vehicles May Protect Against Blast-Induced Brain Injury

Researchers have developed a shock absorbing device for military vehicles that may protect warfighters against traumatic brain injury due to exposure to blasts...

Researchers Join AI-Enabled Counterparts for 'Collaborative Autonomy'
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Researchers Join AI-Enabled Counterparts for 'Collaborative Autonomy'

A team of firefighters clears a building in a blazing inferno, searching rooms for people trapped inside or hotspots that must be extinguished. Except this isn't...

This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car, to Prove a Point
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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car, to Prove a Point

Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online—an evolution of technology called the ...

Countries With Greater Gender Equality Have Lower Percentage of Female STEM Graduates, Study Finds
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Countries With Greater Gender Equality Have Lower Percentage of Female STEM Graduates, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Missouri and Leeds Beckett University found as societies become wealthier and more gender-equal, women are less likely to obtain...

Inside the Command Center Keeping the Winter Olympics Safe
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Inside the Command Center Keeping the Winter Olympics Safe

It's a Sunday during the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, at one in the afternoon—at least in this simulation.

Researcher Identifies Ways to Break the Bias of STEM Stereotypes
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Researcher Identifies Ways to Break the Bias of STEM Stereotypes

A collection of scholarly articles examines gender roles and inequity and the impact of unintentional and purposeful efforts to undermine women's equality in the...

Silicon Valley's 'Middle Class' Earns 7 Times ­.S. Average
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Silicon Valley's 'Middle Class' Earns 7 Times ­.S. Average

In the suburb home to HP and Tesla, high salaries are the norm. But that doesn't mean the residents of Palo Alto feel well off.

AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates in 2020, Gartner Says
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AI Will Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates in 2020, Gartner Says

Artificial intelligence-related job creation will cross into positive territory in 2020, creating 2.3 million jobs while eliminating 1.8 million, according to Gartner...

Why A.I. Researchers at Google Got Desks Next to the Boss
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Why A.I. Researchers at Google Got Desks Next to the Boss

If you want to understand the priorities of a technology company, first look at the seating chart.

Bad News FBI, Snowden's Favorite Chat App Is Booming
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Bad News FBI, Snowden's Favorite Chat App Is Booming

The encrypted chat app Signal, which NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden once said he uses every day, just got a mighty $50 million in funding intended to boost the...

Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall
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Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall

A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...

How to Make Replication the Norm
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How to Make Replication the Norm

Replication is essential for building confidence in research studies, yet it is still the exception rather than the rule.

Global AI Experts Sound The Alarm
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Global AI Experts Sound The Alarm

Twenty-six experts on the security implications of emerging technologies have jointly authored a report that sounds the alarm about the potential malicious use...

Fur Real – Scientists Improve Computer Rendering of Animal Fur
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Fur Real – Scientists Improve Computer Rendering of Animal Fur

Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley have developed a method that dramatically improves the way computers simulate fur, and more specifically, the way...
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