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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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High-Tech Pay Gap: Minorities Earn Less in Skilled Jobs
Hispanics, Asians, and blacks are not receiving equal pay for equal work in the high-tech industry, according to a recent American Institute for Economic Research...
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The Weather Channel's Secret: Less Weather, More Clickbait
The writers and editors at the Weather Channel's weather.com don’t often talk about the weather.
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One in Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software or Robots By 2025
By 2025, software, robots, or other "smart machines" will have replaced as many as one in three existing jobs, Gartner predicts.
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Intel Meets its 'makers,' with Chips For Diy Set and the Firms They'll Found
Intel's Edison chip has been launched in a rocket, floated in a weather balloon, fitted into a futuristic light-emitting dress and used to power a dancing robot...
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School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent
As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.
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Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter
The National Security Agency has a recruiting problem.
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.s. May Be Falling Behind in Researching Tech's Next Big Thing
A University of Virginia professor says the U.S. is not spending enough on research and development of cyber-physical systems.
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Kentucky ses Ideafestival to Push Students Toward Hour of Code Movement
Kentucky Coders hopes to register 1 million Hour of Code coding events before December, starting at the 2014 IdeaFestival, an international event held in Louisville...
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It Skills That Are in Demand, and Those That Will Be
A recent survey of employers found IT professionals with cloud and security-related certifications were in greatest demand.
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Intel Encourages Women to Pursue Cloud Training
Cloud services firms need to do a better job recruiting and retaining women if they want to fill positions with qualified candidates, according to Intel's Raejeanne...
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...
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Electronic Brain by 2023
Researchers on the European Union's decade-long Human Brain Project disclosed how far they have come toward the goal of creating an artificial brain by 2023.
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The Google Formula For Success
Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?
From Communications of the ACM
Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
From Communications of the ACM
Gradual Evolution
Dynamically typed languages adopt features of static typing to cope with growth.
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Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
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The Solace of Oblivion
October 31, 2006, an eighteen-year-old woman named Nikki Catsouras slammed her father's sports car into the side of a concrete toll booth in Orange County, California...
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...
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