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The Effectiveness of Coding Camps
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The Effectiveness of Coding Camps

Do coding schools really get you working faster, with better pay, than college computer science courses?

Supercomputers Take Big Green Leap in 2017
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Supercomputers Take Big Green Leap in 2017

The most environmentally-friendly supercomputers more than doubled their energy efficiency in 2017.

How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human

The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.

Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype

There's something not quite right about humanoid robots.

Why John Deere Just Spent $305 Million on a Lettuce-Farming Robot
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Why John Deere Just Spent $305 Million on a Lettuce-Farming Robot

Tractor giant John Deere just spent $305 million to acquire Blue River Technology, a startup that makes robots capable of identifying unwanted plants and shooting...

Plot a Course Through the Genome
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Plot a Course Through the Genome

Chromatin does much more than just keep DNA neat and tidy.

Jupiter's Aurora Presents a Powerful Mystery
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Jupiter's Aurora Presents a Powerful Mystery

Scientists on NASA''s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful...

Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay

Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.

Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Are Coming--but What Does That Mean?
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Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Are Coming--but What Does That Mean?

Artificial intelligence could play a key role in the next major cyberattack.

Most Tv Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That
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Most Tv Computer Scientists Are Still White Men. Google Wants to Change That

Google is urging Hollywood to diversify the gender and ethnicity of computer scientists appearing on TV and film.

Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to ­nlock the Mysteries of Memory
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Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to ­nlock the Mysteries of Memory

Researchers are using virtual reality to study how a person's brain encodes and retrieves memories while they explore a new virtual environment.

Flip-Flop Qubits: Radical New Quantum Design Invented
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Flip-Flop Qubits: Radical New Quantum Design Invented

Researchers have created a new quantum computing architecture based on "flip-flop quantum bits (qubits)."

Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World

Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.

The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera

We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.

Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype

Researchers at Facebook's Artificial Intelligence lab have developed an expressive animated bot controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm trained on hundreds...

­nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
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­nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge

Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.

Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
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Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have successfully manipulated the electronic structure of graphene.

Can AI Solve Poverty?
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Can AI Solve Poverty?

Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.

Eu Drafting Rules to Protect Technology From Foreign Takeovers
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Eu Drafting Rules to Protect Technology From Foreign Takeovers

Law might follow German rules that let Berlin veto takeover.

What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells ­S About the Future of Automation and Work
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What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells ­S About the Future of Automation and Work

The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will...
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