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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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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
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Algorithms Compete to Predict Recipe For Cancer Vaccine
Could predictive algorithms be the key to creating a successful cancer vaccine?
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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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AI Begins to Understand the 3D World
Artificial intelligence researchers are constructing systems that can visualize the three-dimensional world and take action.
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Big Data Projects Ramp p
Harvested data could hold the key to solving some of society’s greatest problems.
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Designing a Safer Battery For Smartphones (that Won't Catch Fire)
Mike Zimmerman likes to shock his guests by using a hammer to drive a nail through a solid polymer lithium metal battery.
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...
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Quantum Computers Ditch All the Lasers For Easier Engineering
Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have replaced the millions of lasers in traditional quantum computing systems with several static magnets...
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Super-Flexible Liquid Crystal Device For Bendable and Rollable Displays
Researchers from Japan's Tohoku University say they have developed a super-flexible liquid crystal device, in which two ultra-thin plastic substrates are firmly...
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Google-Funded Flint Water App Helps Residents Find Lead Risk, Resources
Computer science researchers at the University of Michigan have released a mobile application and website to help Flint, MI, manage its ongoing water crisis.
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Printable Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have developed an ultra-thin, high-resolution printing process that makes use of nanoporous stamps.
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