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To Win the AI Race, We Need More Humans
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To Win the AI Race, We Need More Humans

The United States is trying to develop a national strategy on artificial intelligence (AI) but is ignoring its single greatest advantage: many of the world's brightest...

Deep Learning Stretches ­p to Scientific Supercomputers
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Deep Learning Stretches ­p to Scientific Supercomputers

A team from Intel, NERSC, and Stanford developed a 15-petaflop deep-learning system and demonstrated its ability to handle large data sets via test runs on the...

The Most Terrifying Device Hacks from This Year's Def Con
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The Most Terrifying Device Hacks from This Year's Def Con

Def Con, one of the most prominent annual hacking conferences in the world, was held in Las Vegas over the weekend.

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....

Simulating Biomolecules Just Got Faster and More Accurate
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Simulating Biomolecules Just Got Faster and More Accurate

Researchers from the University of Florida and the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil have used state of the art simulations to assess the effect...

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...

Engineers Taught a Drone to Herd Birds Away From Airports
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Engineers Taught a Drone to Herd Birds Away From Airports

Engineers at Caltech have developed a control algorithm that enables a single drone to herd an entire flock of birds away from the airspace of an airport.

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.

Programmers Need Ethics When Designing the Technologies that Influence People's Lives
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Programmers Need Ethics When Designing the Technologies that Influence People's Lives

Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the modern world.

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...

Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure
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Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure

Researchers suggest non-exploitable "chaff bugs" in systems could deter attackers from doing real harm.

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...

As Moore's Law Dies, the Chip Giants Seek Fresh Prey
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As Moore's Law Dies, the Chip Giants Seek Fresh Prey

After a five-year, $240 billion acquisition spree, there's a suspicion that the nature of deal-making in the semiconductor industry may be starting to change.

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 ...

Framework Designed to Accelerate Drug Discovery Wins Computing Challenge
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Framework Designed to Accelerate Drug Discovery Wins Computing Challenge

A software framework recognized by the IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge could revolutionize drug design by supporting accurate and rapid calculations...

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.
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