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Why AI Researchers Shouldn't Turn Their Backs on the Military
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Why AI Researchers Shouldn't Turn Their Backs on the Military

More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill....

The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
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The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views

Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting...

Hackers at Convention to Ferret Out Election System Bugs
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Hackers at Convention to Ferret Out Election System Bugs

Def Con, one of the world's largest hacker conventions, will serve as a laboratory for breaking into voting machines this week, extending its efforts to identify...

Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
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Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?

Chris Monroe's vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them.

AI Can Help Write Wikipedia Pages for Overlooked Scientists
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AI Can Help Write Wikipedia Pages for Overlooked Scientists

Quicksilver AI software discovers scientists who should have Wikipedia articles about them and writes a first draft.

Advocates Condemn Psych Techniques ­sed to Keep Kids Online
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Advocates Condemn Psych Techniques ­sed to Keep Kids Online

Children's advocates want the American Psychological Association to condemn the tech industry's practice of using persuasive psychological techniques to keep kids...

Ding! Alibaba Office App Fuels Backlash Among Some Chinese Workers
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Ding! Alibaba Office App Fuels Backlash Among Some Chinese Workers

In the cramped former home of Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, about thirty young engineers sit elbow-to-elbow, working to attract the...

Startup JITX ­ses AI to Automate Complex Circuit Board Design
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Startup JITX ­ses AI to Automate Complex Circuit Board Design

While anyone can learn how to design a circuit board, it takes a skilled engineer to design a circuit board that is both well optimized and unlikely to melt, explode...

Particle Physicists Team ­p With AI to Solve Toughest Science Problems
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Particle Physicists Team ­p With AI to Solve Toughest Science Problems

Researchers from around the world increasingly use machine learning to handle Big Data produced in modern experiments and to study some of the most fundamental...

Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign ­sing Fake Accounts
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Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign ­sing Fake Accounts

Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt the midterm elections, with the company ...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...
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