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The Beeping, Gargling History of Gaming's Most Iconic Sounds
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...
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The Art of Exoplanets
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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The AI Doctor Orders More Tests
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
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The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned
America's top patent and trademark official has abruptly resigned from her post.
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...
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Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?
RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?
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