Physics Division Graduate Student - Winter/Spring 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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The Researchers Who Study Alien Linguistics
Sheri Wells-Jensen is fascinated by languages no one has ever heard—those that might be spoken by aliens.
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Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the 'Business of War'
Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone video, squashing a controversial...
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How One Apple Programmer Got Apps Talking to Each Other
Just six months after joining Apple, Sal Soghoian's job was already on the line.
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How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
The right paint can add pizazz to your walls—and now it can also make them smarter.
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The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design
In 2011, the Dutch industrial giant Philips unveiled something it called the Microbial Home.
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Device Allows a Personal Computer to Process Huge Graphs
Researchers from MIT CSAIL have now designed a device that uses flash memory to process graphs consisting of billions of nodes and connecting lines using only...
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How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
Fei-Fei Li is among the brightest stars in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, somehow managing to hold down two demanding jobs simultaneously: head...
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Microsoft Is Creating an Oracle for Catching Biased AI Algorithms
Microsoft is building a tool to automatically identify bias in a range of different AI algorithms.
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The G.D.P.R., Europe's New Privacy Law, and the Future of the Global Data Economy
They're curious messengers, these ants in your in-box.
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Graphene Layered With Magnetic Materials Could Drive ltrathin Spintronics
Researchers at Berkeley Labs coupled graphene with thin layers of magnetic materials to produce exotic behavior in electrons that could be useful for next-generation...
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Before Reproducibility Must Come Preproducibility
From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...
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Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ber Car's Fatal Crash
More than a second before a self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in March, the vehicle's computer system determined it needed to brake...
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Silicon Valley Must Consider Tech Ethics, DeepMind Chief Says
Big technology companies must rethink the way they develop products and services to put ethical considerations in the forefront, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman...
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70 Years of Instant Photos, Thanks to Inventor Edwin Land's Polaroid Camera
It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and other digital...
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Software Will Help Researchers Interact With Data in New Ways
Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist Wei Xu is building software to help researchers visualize data and create an interactive environment that helps...
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How China Acquires 'the Crown Jewels' of .S. Technology
The U.S. government was well aware of China's aggressive strategy of leveraging private investors to buy up the latest American technology when, early last year...
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Wrigley Field Serves as Classroom for Lane Tech Students
Lane Tech College Prep High School students, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, have installed sensor boxes at Wrigley Field to measure sound levels...
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The Surprising Return of the Repo Man
The computer in the spotter car shouted "Hide!," and repo agent Derek Lewis knew that meant to keep driving like nothing had happened.
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How Tech Can Turn Doctors Into Clerical Workers
There are times when the diagnosis announces itself as the patient walks in, because the body is, among other things, a text.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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