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Online Education Pioneer Boots Up a Jobs Program For the Tech Industry
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Online Education Pioneer Boots Up a Jobs Program For the Tech Industry

Sebastian Thrun smiles a little awkwardly as he explains why he no longer believes in the educational revolution he sold to the world just a few years ago.

Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
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Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump

Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of...

Artificial Intelligence Has a Big Year Ahead
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Big Year Ahead

Get ready for AI to show up where you'd least expect it.

Banks Turn to Mind Reading to Source Top Tech Graduates
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Banks Turn to Mind Reading to Source Top Tech Graduates

Want to work at a bank? First you have to let them read your mind.

Musical Table Teaches Basics of Computer Programming
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Musical Table Teaches Basics of Computer Programming

TuneTable, an interactive tabletop tangible programming application designed to teach basic computer coding through music, will be installed in various museums...

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.

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...

Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research
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Titan's Gpus Boost Subtomic Particle Research

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are using supercomputer parallelism to  make computer codes for quantum chromodynamics applications...

Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials
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Machine Learning Enables Predictive Modeling of 2-D Materials

Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping to accelerate the discovery and development...

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.

Vietnam's Startup Scene Lures Back One-Time Refugees
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Vietnam's Startup Scene Lures Back One-Time Refugees

During Dang Van Tran's numerous attempts to flee Vietnam at the age of seven he was shot at twice, nearly drowned at sea and stranded on an island.

Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools
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Want a Job in Silicon Valley? Keep Away From Coding Schools

It was a calamitous job interview two years ago that prompted Jose Contreras to demand his money back from the coding school he attended.

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...

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.

Suggestions For You: A Better, Faster Recommendation Algorithm
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Suggestions For You: A Better, Faster Recommendation Algorithm

Computer scientists have introduced a new recommendation system that differs from existing models in two major ways.

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...
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