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.n. Opens Formal Discussions on AI-Powered Autonomous Weapons, Could Ban 'killer Robots'
Leaders at the United Nations in Geneva just agreed to officially discuss guidelines for the design, development, and engineering of autonomous weapons. Here's...
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Nasa Releases New Eye-Popping View of Carbon Dioxide
A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide...
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Meet The Municipal Chief Digital Officer
Finally, someone to make cities’ technology relevant.
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.s. Moves Exascale Goalpost, Targets 2021 Delivery
The U.S. timeline for achieving exascale supercomputer performance will be accelerated by one year.
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Quake-Detection App Captured Nearly 400 Temblors Worldwide
The MyShake app has recorded nearly 400 earthquakes since it was made available for download in February.
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This Flying Robot Is the Newest Expert Inspecting Your City's Bridges
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Northeastern University have developed a drone that can create a high-resolution three-dimensional model of...
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California to Regulate Energy se of Desktop Computers and Monitors
The California Energy Commission on Wednesday agreed to pass new regulations for energy efficiency in desktop computers and monitors.
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'i'm Here to Help,' Trump Tells Tech Executives at Meeting
The meeting between President-elect Donald J. Trump and the nation’s tech elite was hyped as something out of “The Apprentice”: The new boss tells his minions to...
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Earth's Magnetic Fields Could Track Ocean Heat: Nasa
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean—but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task.
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Tsu Scientists Discovered How to Avoid Congestion of Mobile Network
Researchers at Tomsk State University in Russia have developed a universal mathematical approach to queuing theory that can be used to eliminate lines in shops...
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ACM Ceo Questions Ethical Computing Future
ACM CEO Bobby Schnabel last week considered the ethical ramifications of computer science's evolution as it pertains to society at a colloquium of students and...
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Flexible Device Captures Energy From Human Motion
Michigan State University researchers say they have developed a new method for harvesting energy from human motion.
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A Blueprint For Getting More Women Into Information Technology
The rise in qualified U.S. information technology graduates is far from fast enough to keep up with industry demands for IT skills.
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Who Decides the Future of Work?
The beginning of “a broad conversation” on whether technology should drive society, or should people make decisions about how technology supplements (or supplants)...
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.s. Proposes Requiring Vehicles to 'talk' to Each Other to Avoid Crashes
The U.S. Transportation Department on Tuesday proposed requiring all new cars and trucks to be able to "talk" to one another using short-range wireless technology...
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Computer-Based Biology Uncovers Secrets to Rice Growth
University of Indiana researchers are using a mix of experimental and computational work to study rice genetics, with the goal of addressing global issues in hunger...
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Researchers Show Viability of 5g Communication With Record-Setting Data Rates
The world's longest bidirectional phased-array link in the 60 GHz band was announced by Keysight Technologies and the University of California, San Diego.
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Sweating Big Human-Body Data Challenge
University of California, Berkeley professor Ali Javey heads a project involving wearable electronics to help address an inability to "monitor health conditions...
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Did the Russians 'hack' the Election? A Look at the Established Facts
President-elect Donald Trump continues to discount or attempt to discredit reports that the intelligence community has linked the hacking of the DNC, the Hillary...
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