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AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans
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AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans

Since May 1, artificial intelligence software has been sifting through the images of 21 tower-mounted cameras in Sonoma County, Calif., and alerting a fire emergency...

How Software Is Eating the Car
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How Software Is Eating the Car

The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars.

Universities Launch Tropical Data Center Testbed
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Universities Launch Tropical Data Center Testbed

The National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and other stakeholders have established a US$17.3 million research program to develop green...

Telecom Engineer Writes Novels About Abuses of Science and Technology
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Telecom Engineer Writes Novels About Abuses of Science and Technology

Thomas J J Starr applied his insight as a telecommunications engineer to "Retrograde," a novel that explores the Internet's vulnerabilities and the disastrous impacts...

On-Job Learning, Listening to Employees Makes Teams More Resilient
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On-Job Learning, Listening to Employees Makes Teams More Resilient

Managers who encourage employees to learn on the job and speak up with ideas and suggestions have teams that are more effective and resilient in the face of unexpected...

Web Inventor Berners-Lee to Auction Source Code As An NFT
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee to Auction Source Code As An NFT

British computer scientist, inventor, and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning the original code for the world wide web as a non-fungible...

Chinese Companies Use 'Third Eye' Software to Monitor Tech Workers
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Chinese Companies Use 'Third Eye' Software to Monitor Tech Workers

Chinese tech companies are using "Third Eye" surveillance software to monitor workers' web usage and idle time, and track when a worker is viewing videos or looking...

U.S. Ranks 29th Globally in Digital Skills, Report Finds
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U.S. Ranks 29th Globally in Digital Skills, Report Finds

Despite the rapid rate of digital transformation, U.S. digital skills proficiency trails that of many countries in Europe and Asia, according to Coursera's Global...

Open-Source Tool Helps Design Faster, Energy Efficient Computers
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Open-Source Tool Helps Design Faster, Energy Efficient Computers

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed the OpenCGRA tool to accelerate the design of coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) chip architectures...

COVID-19 Drives Steep Decline in U.S. Undergrad, STEM Student Enrollment
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COVID-19 Drives Steep Decline in U.S. Undergrad, STEM Student Enrollment

American colleges and universities have suffered the greatest decline in enrollment in a decade, with 603,000 fewer students enrolled than last year.

Are Private Training Companies an Alternative to a Computer Science Degree?
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Are Private Training Companies an Alternative to a Computer Science Degree?

Bootcamps offer accelerated IT training to people with no related experience or education, and graduates have been successful at finding work in their new fields...

How Amazon Is Tackling the AI Talent Crunch
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How Amazon Is Tackling the AI Talent Crunch

Amazon is requiring potential new programming hires to take classes in machine learning so that they can work on more cutting-edge projects after they're hired....

Google Used Reinforcement Learning to Design Next-Gen AI Accelerator Chips
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Google Used Reinforcement Learning to Design Next-Gen AI Accelerator Chips

A team of Google researchers claim they've fine-tuned a technique to automate the placement of on-chip transistors in the design of Google's upcoming Tensor Processing...

Public School Teacher Celebrated for Her Girls-Only CS Classes
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Public School Teacher Celebrated for Her Girls-Only CS Classes

Chantel Parnell piloted an all-girls computer science class at Bret Harte Middle School and recently won Teacher of the Year for Oakland Unified School District...

Partnership Forms Startup Accelerator in Oak Ridge Corridor
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Partnership Forms Startup Accelerator in Oak Ridge Corridor

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the University of Tennessee System, and Techstars have formed an accelerator program that will work...

Generating Synthetic Data Solves Major Privacy Issues in Research
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Generating Synthetic Data Solves Major Privacy Issues in Research

Researchers at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence used probabilistic modelling to generate high-quality anonymized synthetic data while preserving original...

Hiring Automation Has Accelerated in Tech Talent Hunt
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Hiring Automation Has Accelerated in Tech Talent Hunt

The adoption of hiring automation has accelerated over the last 18 months as companies seek technical talent for in-person, hybrid-remote, and fully-remote positions...

Tech Industry Has Hardest Job Interviews, Study Says
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Tech Industry Has Hardest Job Interviews, Study Says

The technology industry has the hardest job interviews of 12 sectors examined in a recent study.

Tech Workers Are Leaving San Francisco, NY, for Austin and Nashville
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Tech Workers Are Leaving San Francisco, NY, for Austin and Nashville

It's unclear, however, whether the transplanted techies will stay put after the pandemic.

Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
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Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe

Restaurants are struggling to hire people, so one Jersey Shore grill employed a machine. It confirms that humans remain indispensable.
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