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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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Python Programming Language, AWS Skills Demand Exploding
Analysis of Indeed.com job search engine listings over the last five years found explosive growth in demand for skills in Python.
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Inside CDC's Scramble to Solve Mysterious Vaping Disease
Efforts by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate a spate of vaping-related injuries and deaths required building a new data-collection...
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Tracking the Eye of the Pilot
Researchers have developed and tested eye-tracking software for use in training pilots.
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Search Results Not Biased Along Party Lines, Stanford Scholars Find
A research study did not uncover any apparent political bias in the algorithm of the Google search engine.
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With Face Scans, Automated Marking, Singapore Carves AI Niche
Singapore has unveiled an effort to become a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2030.
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Older IT Workers Left Out Despite Tech Talent Shortage
U.S. tech sector skews younger than the workforce as a whole, with the largest gap among employees 35 to 44.
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Are Hiring Algorithms Fair? Study Finds They're Too Opaque to Tell
A study by Cornell University researchers raises doubts about algorithms' ability to make fair decisions when screening potential hires.
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White House Updates National Strategic Computing Initiative
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released an update to the National Strategic Computing Initiative.
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Bitcoin Will Burn the Planet Down. The Question: How Fast?
A new paper concludes that it takes more than four times as much energy to mine $1 of bitcoin as mining $1 of copper.
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Regulating Information Technology
Why isn't IT regulated, when it can have such substantial impacts on people's lives?
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Robots Aim to Boost Astronaut Efficiency
A multitude of robotic assistants for astronauts and rovers are in development to make space exploration more resource-efficient.
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Quantum Radar and the Future of Warfare
Quantum radar could have implications for how we diagnose disease and fight wars.
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Future of Autonomous Delivery May Be Unfolding in Suburban Houston
Robotics company Nuro has been field-testing delivery via autonomous vehicles (AV) in Houston.
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U.S. Army Creating Robots That Can Follow Orders
Researchers have developed software that allows robots to understand verbal instructions, carry out those instructions, and report back.
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Software Developers in Fintech, Cloud Sectors Earn the Most in South Africa
South African software developers in the fintech and cloud services sectors are the most highly paid developers, according to the “2019 State of South Africa's...
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Machine Learning vs. Machine Learning
Using machine learning to detect deepfakes created for criminal purposes with machine learning.
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The Second Machine Age Hits The Tipping Point
AI, robotics, and industrial software are rapidly approaching a tipping point that could correspond with the greatest level of stock outperformance.
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WPI Researchers Discover Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Computer Chips
Researchers found two flaws impacting Intel and STMicroelectronics central processing units that hackers could exploit to steal or doctor data on billions of devices...
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U.S. Companies Facing Huge Tech Talent Deficit in 2020
Talent acquisition platform iCIMS found a substantial shortage of professionals with technology skills, despite an upsurge of hiring across the U.S. technology...
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