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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.

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...

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.

How Can Video Games Impact Education?
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How Can Video Games Impact Education?

Video games should be used to promote student motivation, engagement, and ultimately learning, the same as any other effective learning facilitator, says Texas...

NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination
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NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its...

Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life
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Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life

While many technology experts and scholars have concerns about the social, political, and economic fallout from the spread of digital activities, they also tend...

Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials
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Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials

A group of scientists at Berkeley Lab bested two dozen other teams in a months-long, data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated radioactive materials in a virtual...

High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too
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High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too

One of the best-selling T-shirts for the Indian e-commerce site Myntra is an olive, blue and yellow colorblocked design. It was conceived not by a human but by...

Why Made in China 2025 Will Succeed, Despite Trump
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Why Made in China 2025 Will Succeed, Despite Trump

China will succeed in building a powerful technology industry that will rival the United States, even if President Trump starts a trade war to stop it.

Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice
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Speaking in Code: How to Program by Voice

Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel's was especially unwelcome.

How Much All-Seeing AI Surveillance Is Too Much?
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How Much All-Seeing AI Surveillance Is Too Much?

When a CIA-backed venture capital fund took an interest in Rana el Kaliouby's face-scanning technology for detecting emotions, the computer scientist and her colleagues...

Why Robots Helped Donald Trump Win
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Why Robots Helped Donald Trump Win

Ronald Shrewsbery II used to be the Robot Doctor. Now he's known by the more bureaucratic-sounding title "WCM (World Class Manufacturing) Electrical Technical Specialist...

Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes

For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...

Virtual Reality Could Be Cure to Public Speaking Fear
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Virtual Reality Could Be Cure to Public Speaking Fear

Researchers at Texas A&M University are utilizing virtual reality technology to improve an individual's public speaking skills.

Tech Didn't Spot Russian Interference During the Last Election. Now It's Asking Law Enforcement for Help.
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Tech Didn't Spot Russian Interference During the Last Election. Now It's Asking Law Enforcement for Help.

Silicon Valley companies and law enforcement are starting to talk about how to ward off meddling by malicious actors including Russia on social media in the November...

Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci
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Furor on Claim Women's Choices Create Gender Gap in Comp Sci

Lecturer at University of Washington says he's standing up to political correctness. Many challenge his facts.

Pain Is Weird. Making Bionic Arms Feel Pain Is Even Weirder
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Pain Is Weird. Making Bionic Arms Feel Pain Is Even Weirder

Pain is an indispensable tool for survival.

Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair
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Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair

In 2015, a worried father asked Rhema Vaithianathan a question that still weighs on her mind.

IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters
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IBM Pits Computer Against Human Debaters

IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it's been working on for more than five...
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