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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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Apprenticeship Emerging To Fill Skills Gaps
New approaches to apprenticeship aim to provide talented, if not traditionally trained, computing professionals.
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Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Should Be Updated For the 21st Century
Tom Sorell, a professor at the University of Warwick in the U.K., suggests Isaac Asimov's famed "Three Laws of Robotics" need updating for the modern era,
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Tech Jobs Are Thriving Nationwide--p to 7.3m
The U.S. technology job market has expanded 2% to about 7.3 million employees since 2016, with 6.9 million employed by technology companies, according to CompTIA's...
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Bias Test to Prevent Algorithms Discriminating nfairly
Researchers are developing a framework to identify and eliminate algorithmic bias.
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Faster Page Loads
Flowtune is a new system for allocating bandwidth in datacenter networks.
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Cybersecurity Expert Studies Novel Tools to Thwart Attacks
California State University, Fullerton professor Mikhail Gofman says maintaining cybersecurity "requires constant work, commitment, and dedication."
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For Sale: Your Private Browsing History
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
An out-of-the-box solution to infrastructure is drawing increasing attention.
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I Took the AI Class Facebookers Are Literally Sprinting to Get Into
Chia-Chiunn Ho was eating lunch inside Facebook headquarters, at the Full Circle Cafe, when he saw the notice on his phone: Larry Zitnick, one of the leading figures...
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Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race For American Jobs
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
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Machine Learning Lets Scientists Reverse-Engineer Cellular Control Networks
Researchers are using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Stampede supercomputer to create tadpoles with pigmentation never before seen in nature.
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Software Synthesis Learns By Example
Neural networks will assist, rather than replace, human programmers.
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These AI Bots Created Their Own Language to Talk to Each Other
OpenAI last week disclosed new research detailing the training of artificial intelligence bots to generate their own shared language.
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People Remain Calm as the World Ends, Video Game Study Suggests
University at Buffalo researchers found despite some violent acts, most people will be helpful to others as the world ends.
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Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.i. Apocalypse
It was just a friendly little argument about the fate of humanity. Demis Hassabis, a leading creator of advanced artificial intelligence, was chatting with ...
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Sensors on the Brain
Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.
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A Professor Built an AI Teaching Assistant For His Courses--and It Could Shape the Future of Education
Georgia Institute of Technology professor Ashok Goel has created an artificially intelligent teaching assistant.
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Bringing Augmented Reality to Warehouses
Researchers have created PickAR, a headset that uses AR technology to overlay picking information so warehouses can find and process orders with greater efficiency...
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