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Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly nlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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Cars Suck p Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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Deer Caught in the Headlights? Your Car May Soon See Them
Automakers are working to develop systems that would enable self-driving cars to avoid hitting large animals such as deer.
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Beijing Wants AI to Be Made in China By 2030
The country laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030.
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in Dna
A video clip of a galloping horse, one of the first motion pictures ever made, is now also the first movie ever to be encoded in the DNA of a living cell, where...
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Hackers Find 'ideal Testing Ground' For Attacks: Developing Countries
The attack had the hallmarks of something researchers had dreaded for years: malicious software using artificial intelligence that could lead to a new digital arms...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
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That Ball Was Hit a Country Mile, or 495 Feet If You're Into Hard Data
Spoiler alert: If you wish to continue enjoying gargantuan home runs in the future with unspoiled pleasure, free of all polynomial equations, read no further. If...
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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...
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Yearning For New Physics at Cern, in a Post-Higgs Way
The world's biggest and most expensive time machine is running again.
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Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels
Swiveling seats? Movies projected across the windshield? Social media feeds on the windows?
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.s. Cyberweapons, sed Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against Isis
America's fast-growing ranks of secret cyberwarriors have in recent years blown up nuclear centrifuges in Iran and turned to computer code and electronic warfare ...
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Robot Cars Can't Count on S in an Emergency
Many automotive technologists are skeptical that autonomous cars will be able to trust humans in emergency situations.
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The Internet Is Where We Share, and Steal, the Best Ideas
In April, a photograph of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o taken at a Miu Miu fashion show three years ago began recirculating online.
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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Third Gravitational Wave Detection, From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light Years Away
The void is rocking and rolling with invisible cataclysms.
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