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Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism
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Why Apple Is the Future of Capitalism

With Apple Inc. now exceeding $1 trillion in market capitalization, it's tempting to understand this moment in terms of the dominance of all-too-large companies...

Pentagon Restricts ­se of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices
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Pentagon Restricts ­se of Fitness Trackers, Other Devices

Military troops and other defense personnel at sensitive bases or certain high-risk warzone areas won't be allowed to use fitness-tracker or cellphone applications...

Inside the Boot Camp Reforming Teenage Hackers
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Inside the Boot Camp Reforming Teenage Hackers

The program aims to offer young cybercriminals an alternative to jail and turn them into legit cyber pros.

Engineer to Explore Impact of Social Robots and AI in Higher Education
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Engineer to Explore Impact of Social Robots and AI in Higher Education

Alan Wagner of Penn State is investigating how social, artificially intelligent robots in higher education can foster and enforce ethical behavior and academic...

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...

LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio
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LeBron James Opens STEM-Based School For At-Risk Students In Ohio

The I Promise School in Akron, Ohio, is a joint venture between the  LeBron James Family Foundation and Akron Public Schools. The school will give at-risk students...

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 ...

CS­ Campuses Receive $7.1M to Support STEM Educators
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CS­ Campuses Receive $7.1M to Support STEM Educators

Six California State University campuses earned U.S. National Science Foundation funding to support educational opportunities for math and science majors pursuing...

DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
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DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics

The U.S. military agency is worried the United States could lose its edge in semiconductor chips.

Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth
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Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth

Scientists from the Skoltech Institute of Science and Technology have developed a 2-D/3-D scanning system with the intelligent data processing mechanism which helps...

The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal

In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...

China's AI Focus Will Leave U.S. in the Dust, Professor Says
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China's AI Focus Will Leave U.S. in the Dust, Professor Says

China is leading the global race for supremacy in artificial intelligence and financial technologies, says Tsinghua University Professor Steven White.

Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia
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Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students Alarm Academia

Educators and academic groups fear that the Trump administration's additional scrutiny of Chinese citizens seeking visas could alienate talented applicants and...

Inside Google's Shadow Workforce
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Inside Google's Shadow Workforce

About half of Google's workers are contractors who don't receive the same benefits as direct employees.

Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto

Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...

DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative
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DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative

Hundreds of engineers gathered at the Darpa Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit in San Francisco yesterday to hear that dozens of them were getting millions...

Are ­niversities Training Socially Minded Programmers?
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Are ­niversities Training Socially Minded Programmers?

Courses that explore the ethical implications of emerging technologies are cropping up across the United States.

Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector
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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows plenty of high-paying technology jobs, as well as lower-end jobs that pay above average compared to the rest of the economy...

NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data

While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...

Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't
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Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't

Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam.
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