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Ap Computer Science Draws in More Girls, Minorities
More young women took an Advanced Placement computer science exam in 2016 than in 2007 through 2013 combined, mainly because of the College Board's new AP CS Principles...
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Hpe and Nasa Experiment With a Supercomputer That Could Help US Get to Mars
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NASA announced a year-long joint experiment in which a "Spaceborne Computer" will be set up at the International Space Station, with...
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Computer Scientists Use Music to Covertly Track Body Movements, Activity
Researchers at the University of Washington have demonstrated the use of smart devices as surveillance tools to track a user's position, body movements, and activity...
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Nasa's Voyager Missions Could Guide Aliens to Earth
The 40th anniversary of the launch of two of NASA's most remarkable spacecraft is fast approaching.
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How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Innovators are using deep neural networks to train machines to produce artwork by analyzing massive datasets. Google researcher Douglas Eck envisions artificial...
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Scientists Automate Key Step in Forensic Fingerprint Analysis
Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed an algorithm that automates the fingerprint-analysis...
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Wsu Researchers Receive $2.3m to Improve .s. Power Grid Design
Researchers at Washington State University recently received a $2.3-million U.S. Department of Energy grant to more efficiently distribute power and better manage...
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How Secure Are Your Messages?
Researchers at Brigham Young University have found most users of Facebook Messenger, What'sApp, and the Viber messaging apps leave themselves open to fraud or other...
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Tripping the Light Fantastic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a chip that uses light, not electrons, to crunch data.
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China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
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The Imperfect Crime: How the Wannacry Hackers Could Get Nabbed
When hackers unleashed the WannaCry "ransomware" in mid-May, not only did they wreak havoc on European hospitals, telecoms and railways, they also made off with...
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This Robot Lab Has No Idea What Its Robots Are Doing
The Georgia Institute of Technology's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines supports the Robotarium, an arena where scientists can run experiments on...
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I'm a Woman in Computer Science. Let Me Ladysplain the Google Memo to You.
A main reason the Google "manifesto" has been met with so much support is its quasi-professional tone, writes Cynthia Lee of Stanford University.
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A Researcher Disguised Himself as a Car Seat to Teach Driverless Cars How to Communicate With Humans
Researchers costumed themselves as car seats to give the appearance no one is driving during autonomous vehicle experiments.
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Researchers say they have proof that social bots are the key to the online proliferation of fake news.
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How Do You Fix a School-Bus Problem? Call MIT
A team of researchers has developed an algorithm to plot more efficient public-school bus routes.
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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan
Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its ...
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Teaching A.i. Systems to Behave Themselves
At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes,...
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