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GitHub Launches GPT-4-Powered Copilot Coding Assistant
Software developer hosting service GitHub launched a new version of its Copilot coding assistant powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) multimodal...
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Popular Student Monitoring Software Could Have Exposed Thousands to Hacks
The McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research team found a bug in the Netop Vision Pro Education software used by about 3 million teachers and students worldwide...
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Tactile Blocks Teach Blind Kids to Code
Microsoft is testing an educational programming kit for visually impaired children that uses differently-shaped blocks or "pods" that each embody a line of code...
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Disaster Relief Is Dangerously Broken. Can AI Fix It?
The use of artificial intelligence in disaster relief is gaining favor as weather-related catastrophes grow in frequency and severity.
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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers...
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MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.
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The Truth About Google X
Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good.
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This Algorithm Can Predict Your Success At niversity
In a large university full of lecture classes, it can be hard to pinpoint the students who are falling through the cracks.
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Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes
Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice.
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Emotion-Sniffing Is Next Trick Your Phone Is Learning
Rice University scientists, working with Microsoft Research, have created something rather surprising—a long-term-mood detecting device that can ascertain a user's...
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How Nasa's Giant New Space Telescope Will Make Life on Earth Better
NASA is responsible for more Earth-bound technologies than just space ice cream; the organization's research has led to everything from new kinds of artificial ...
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How the 'internet Of Things' Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms
When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water...
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