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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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He Dropped Out of School to Learn Robotics. Now He's Teaching STEM Across Ghana
Jonathan Kennedy Sowah founded a tech club that became InovTech STEM Center, which travels to schools across Ghana to teach students and teachers STEM subjects...
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Cornell University Reports More Than 900 Covid-19 Cases This Week
Many are Omicron variant cases in fully vaccinated students.
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.
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17 of Apple's Favorite Apps
Steve Jobs was a stickler for detail, requiring final approval on everything from ads to wording on his Keynote presentations. It's no surprise then that the company...
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Why Everybody Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
In a world where computers are increasingly powerful and are concealed within ever more glossy slabs of aluminum, the Raspberry Pi offers surprising proof for the...
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5 Big Tech Issues Await Obama in Second Term
Technology policy didn't get much air time in the 2012 presidential election, but the Obama administration will face serious issues over the next four years.
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Class of 2011 Scores Higher-Paying Jobs
Engineering students secured the highest-paying jobs among 2011 graduates, according to a new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
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Why Would-Be Engineers End Up As English Majors
Amenah Ibrahim vividly remembers her first introduction to thermodynamics.
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Tech Guilt: 5 'persuasive' Technologies to Help You Be Good
Information is power, but does information—by itself—actually make people change their behavior?
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Cashing in on Internet Censorship
A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship. In countries where governments continue to...
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An Engineer's Quest to Caption the Web
The Internet used to be a place where Ken Harrenstien could do anything. The Google engineer, who has been deaf since childhood, loved the Web because he could...
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Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...
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