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'One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong'
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'One Has This Feeling of Having Contributed to Something That’s Gone Very Wrong'

A conversation with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley's politics, being quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and what went wrong with the Internet.

Moscow State ­niversity Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
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Moscow State ­niversity Team Wins World Finals of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

University teams from Beijing and Tokyo also were recognized with gold medals.

Invertebrates Inspire First Fully 3D Printed Active Materials for Robots
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Invertebrates Inspire First Fully 3D Printed Active Materials for Robots

Researchers say they have developed the first fully three-dimensionally-printed dielectric elastomer actuators to perform high bending motion.

OLPC’s $100 Laptop was Going to Change the World — Then it All Went Wrong
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OLPC’s $100 Laptop was Going to Change the World — Then it All Went Wrong

It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world.

Fight for Tech Supremacy Intensifies as ­.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Companies
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Fight for Tech Supremacy Intensifies as ­.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Companies

The United States undercut China's technology ambitions on Tuesday, advancing a new rule that would limit the ability of Chinese telecommunications companies to...

Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found
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Robots Ride to the Rescue Where Workers Can't Be Found

When Zbynek Frolik needed new employees to handle surging orders at his cavernous factories in central Bohemia, he fanned advertisements across the Czech Republic...

Deep Learning Transforms Smartphone Microscopes Into Laboratory-Grade Devices
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Deep Learning Transforms Smartphone Microscopes Into Laboratory-Grade Devices

Deep learning can discern and enhance microscopic details in smartphone photos, with the potential to transform applications in global health, telemedicine, and...

Females Now Make ­p Less Than One Tenth of Computer Science Students in the ­.K.
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Females Now Make ­p Less Than One Tenth of Computer Science Students in the ­.K.

Less than 10% of computer science students in the U.K. are female, and some schools have no female information and computing technology students at all.

Russia to Ban Telegram Messenger Over Encryption Dispute
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Russia to Ban Telegram Messenger Over Encryption Dispute

A Russian court on Friday ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service be blocked in Russia, heralding possible communication disruption for millions of...

Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare
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Pressure Building for Rules of Engagement for Cyberwarfare

The call for an international legal framework governing cyberwarfare is gaining momentum.

DevOps, Machine Learning Dominate Technology Opportunities This Year
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DevOps, Machine Learning Dominate Technology Opportunities This Year

Programming languages and frameworks associated with DevOps and machine learning are on the rise, and developers working in these areas garner the highest salaries...

The Next NSA Chief Is More ­sed to Cyberwar Than Spy Games
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The Next NSA Chief Is More ­sed to Cyberwar Than Spy Games

After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant...

Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain
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Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain

Entrepreneurs, companies, and governments look to use databases like Blockchain—often independent of Bitcoin—to solve some of the most intractable issues facing...

Robots Augment Surgeons
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Robots Augment Surgeons

Automation that helps doctors perform surgery also will help them learn to be better surgeons.

Emmanuel Macron Talks About France's AI Strategy
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Emmanuel Macron Talks About France's AI Strategy

The French government will spend €1.5 billion ($1.85 billion) over five years to support research in artificial intelligence, encourage startups, and collect data...

Companies Seek Ways to Hold On to Customer Data ­nder New E­ Privacy Law
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Companies Seek Ways to Hold On to Customer Data ­nder New E­ Privacy Law

Nicholas Oliver gathers reams of personal information about users of his mobile app: age, sex, location, profession, relationship status, and more—and uses it to...

Princeton Senior ­ses Big Data to Examine Global Digital Gender Gap
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Princeton Senior ­ses Big Data to Examine Global Digital Gender Gap

A Princeton University student used Facebook's advertising audience estimates to reveal insights on the global digital gender gap.

What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ­ser Data
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ­ser Data

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...

DevOps Momentum in the Enterprise
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DevOps Momentum in the Enterprise

The notion of unifying software development and software operation is catching on.

Vint Cerf on the Prospect of a "Digital Dark Age"
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Vint Cerf on the Prospect of a "Digital Dark Age"

Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf talks about the frailty and impermanence of digitally-stored information.
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