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Solving Silicon Valley's Gender Problem
In an interview, former Stanford University Graduate School of Business doctoral students Julie Oberweis and Monica Leas discuss the genesis of a survey detailing...
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Robot Learning Companion Offers Custom-Tailored Tutoring
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and MIT have developed a socially assistive robot that can serve as a one-to-one peer for learning in the classroom or for...
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The Fbi Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk
It's been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely ...
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Searching for the Particle Accelerator at the Heart of the Milky Way
We're rightly proud of the Large Hadron Collider, which accelerates protons up to 7 Tera-electron Volts before smashing them together.
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Astronomers Discover Colossal 'super Spiral' Galaxies
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness.
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Oldest Ancient-Human Dna Details Dawn of Neanderthals
Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world's most wasteful genome-sequencing project.
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In Africa, Watson's Sister Lucy Is Growing p With the Help of Ibm's Research Team
IBM Research Africa's Kenya lab is giving shape to Lucy, a technology platform aimed at finding "commercially viable solutions to the continent's grand challenges...
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Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++ 17
In an interview, C++ programming language creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses its next planned iteration, C++ 17.
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Computer Scientists Produce Realistic Face Models From Video Recordings
Researchers say they have developed a way to quickly and easily produce very detailed face models.
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Banning Words on Instagram Doesn't Help--It Makes It Worse
A new study shows Instagram's decision to ban certain words used by pro-eating disorder communities had those communities making up new, almost identical words.
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The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
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There Is a 'game Changer' Technology on Wall Street and People Keep Confusing It with Bitcoin
Wall Street banks are buzzing about blockchain.
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On the Hunt For a Mystery Planet
Astronomer Scott Sheppard runs through his checklist as he settles in for a long night of skygazing at the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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Apple Says Constitution 'forbids' What Fbi Is Asking
Apple shouldn't have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California, terrorists because the Constitution forbids it, the...
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DARPA Calls on Diyers For Weaponized Tech
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking ideas on how products assembled from benign technologies might be transformed into security threats...
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Forget the Robots--Here Come the Geminoids!
Last weekend's South by Southwest Interactive Festival was a showcase for many types of robots.
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What AI Can Tell S About the .s. Supreme Court
Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Discovery Analytics Center have proposed using machine learning to model the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Computer Science Education in the Age of CS For All
Momentum for bringing computer science to all primary and secondary U.S. schools is building, even though many issues remain unresolved.
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