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Why Mainframes Survive
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Why Mainframes Survive

Many companies continue to pay the licensing fees on mainframe hardware, OS, and applications, and maintain staff for the hundreds or thousands of support personnel...

Researchers Boost the Building Blocks of Computing
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Researchers Boost the Building Blocks of Computing

Researchers from the group of Jean Anne Incorvia, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, describe improvements on current semiconductor technology...

Employees Want ChatGPT at Work. Bosses Worry They'll Spill Secrets
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Employees Want ChatGPT at Work. Bosses Worry They'll Spill Secrets

Some corporate leaders have banned the use of generative artificial intelligence tools over concerns about exposing sensitive company and customer information. ...

What Makes Developers Productive?
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What Makes Developers Productive?

We tend to miss some factors that go into developer productivity, perhaps because they are hard to directly measure. But it is still worthwhile to ensure that you...

Shopify Calculator Shows How Much Meetings Are Costing the Company
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Shopify Calculator Shows How Much Meetings Are Costing the Company

In an escalating war on pointless meetings, Shopify has introducing a calculator that shows employees how much it costs to gather dozens of colleagues for a meeting...

AI Content Detectors Discriminate Against Non-Native English Speakers
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AI Content Detectors Discriminate Against Non-Native English Speakers

Computer programs used to detect essays, job applications, and other work generated by artificial intelligence can discriminate against people who are non-native...

Digital vs. Paper Calendar: Which Is Better for Planning?
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Digital vs. Paper Calendar: Which Is Better for Planning?

Researchers studied digital calendars and paper calendars to determine which leads to better planning and higher efficiency. Their work is published in the Journal...

ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
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ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work

Workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk and other crowd-work platforms are the latest group to face accusations of using large language models like ChatGPT as a shortcut...

92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, GitHub Survey Says
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92% of Programmers Are Using AI Tools, GitHub Survey Says

AI programming isn't the future, it's the present.

AI Creates Algorithms That Sort Data Faster Than Those Built by People
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AI Creates Algorithms That Sort Data Faster Than Those Built by People

A system based on Google DeepMind's AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three...

ChatGPT Took Their Jobs. Now They Walk Dogs and Fix Air Conditioners
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ChatGPT Took Their Jobs. Now They Walk Dogs and Fix Air Conditioners

Artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paying jobs of writers of marketing and social media content.

Professors Use Oral Exams to Thwart AI-Enabled Cheating
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Professors Use Oral Exams to Thwart AI-Enabled Cheating

With students submitting papers genderted almost entirely by artificial intelligence, a wave of professors around the world are experimenting with oral exams to...

AI Means Everyone Can Now Be A Programmer, Nvidia Chief Says
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AI Means Everyone Can Now Be A Programmer, Nvidia Chief Says

Artificial intelligence means everyone can now be a computer programmer as all they need to do is speak to the computer, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday...

Quantum Computers Are All 'Terrible' – Researchers Aren't Worried
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Quantum Computers Are All 'Terrible' – Researchers Aren't Worried

Even scientists who have made quantum computers their life's work say they can't do anything useful — yet. "They're all terrible," says University of Sussex physicist...

College is Remade as Tech Majors Surge, Humanities Dwindle
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College is Remade as Tech Majors Surge, Humanities Dwindle

Higher education institutions are seeing rising enrollment in computer science at the same time interest in humanities is declining.

Workers More Willing to Accept Incompetent Bosses Who Are Older
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Workers More Willing to Accept Incompetent Bosses Who Are Older

Workers are more willing to accept an incompetent boss who is older and more experienced than themselves, but less likely to accept incompetence if the boss isJournal...

AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less
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AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less

A simple test can settle the raging debate about whether code generation AI products will create or destroy more jobs for developers.

DEFCON to Set Thousands of Hackers Loose on LLMs
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DEFCON to Set Thousands of Hackers Loose on LLMs

This year's DEFCON AI Village will include an event where hackers will be tasked with finding bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google...

Comparing Five AI Coding Models
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Comparing Five AI Coding Models

Here is a comparison of four of the most advanced AI bots that can write code: GPT-4, Bing, Claude+, and Bard. Although not technically similar, GitHub Co-Pilot...

Researchers Develop A Wood Transistor
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Researchers Develop A Wood Transistor

Researchers at Linköping University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a transistor made of conductive wood, a possible step toward bio-based...
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