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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain

Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.

­sing Data Science to Return Millions to Job Market
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­sing Data Science to Return Millions to Job Market

A newly launched initiative of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory will use the latest computation and data science tools to help close the...

The CRISPR Pioneers
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The CRISPR Pioneers

Dr. Carl June's lab at the University of Pennsylvania looks like any other biology research hub.

Donald Trump's Pick For Labor Secretary Has Said Machines Are Cheaper, Easier to Manage Than Humans
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Donald Trump's Pick For Labor Secretary Has Said Machines Are Cheaper, Easier to Manage Than Humans

Fast food executive Andrew Puzder, who President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap as labor secretary, has advocated replacing some human workers with machines...

Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival

One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...

Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots ­sed Online
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Congress Moves to Curb Ticket Scalping, Banning Bots ­sed Online

With public attention focused on the scourge of online ticket scalping, Congress has passed a bill outlawing bots, or computer programs that let users scoop up...

Learning Words From Pictures
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Learning Words From Pictures

A system that correlates recorded speech with images could lead to fully automated speech recognition.

Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.
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Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.

The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about...

Electronically Picking Your Brain – For Market Research
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Electronically Picking Your Brain – For Market Research

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology wants to scrap the traditional electronic and paper survey approaches to gathering marketing and information...

What Is 'military Artificial Intelligence'? 
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What Is 'military Artificial Intelligence'? 

We are in an era of existential fear of technology.

How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy
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How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy

Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you.

Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change
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Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change

In 1909, the same year that William Howard Taft became president, the arcade game known as skee-ball made its appearance. 

Theory Challenging Einstein's View on Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested
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Theory Challenging Einstein's View on Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested

The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...

The New Workplace Is Agile, and Nonstop. Can You Keep Up?
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The New Workplace Is Agile, and Nonstop. Can You Keep Up?

Whether you like it or not, your boss may want you to start acting more like a programmer.

Trump's Populism Is Only the Beginning. Here Come the Robots. 
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Trump's Populism Is Only the Beginning. Here Come the Robots. 

Donald Trump's win is a wake-up call that voters are angry with a system that's made middle-class jobs tougher to come by, and increased inequality.

Blood Diseases Could Show Crispr's Potential as Therapy
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Blood Diseases Could Show Crispr's Potential as Therapy

You know you've struck marketing gold when a brand becomes a so-called "proprietary eponym."

James Simons's Foundation Starts New Institute For Computing, Big Data
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James Simons's Foundation Starts New Institute For Computing, Big Data

A new private research institute financed by the billionaire James H. Simons in New York will develop software tools and apply cutting edge computing techniques...

New Institute Pushes the Boundaries of Big Data
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New Institute Pushes the Boundaries of Big Data

The Simons Foundation launches Flatiron Institute, a group of computational centers exploring galaxy formation, genomics, neuroscience, and other fields.

Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent
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Google Opens Montreal AI Lab to Snag Scarce Global Talent

Google is building a new artificial intelligence lab in Montreal dedicated to deep learning, a technology that's rapidly reinventing not only Google but the rest...

Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models
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Jay W. Forrester Dies at 98; a Pioneer in Computer Models

Jay W. Forrester, an electrical engineer whose insights into both computing and organizations more than 60 years ago gave rise to a field of computer modeling that...
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