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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Vexed in the City: Starved For Tech Talent and Yet Nobody to Hire?
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...
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New Algorithm Gives Credit Where Credit Is Due
A new algorithm could help determine how to properly allocate credit for science papers that have multiple authors.
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on Tech's Diversity Gap
In an interview, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg says it is crucial for the technology industry to become more diverse.
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Data Center Innovation: New Ways to Save Energy
The High Tech and Industrial Systems Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently designated the DoE Center of Expertise for energy efficiency in data...
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It Jobs: Which States Show Most Growth?
Dice's August jobs report found Texas leads in technology job growth in 2014 based on new hiring data, followed by Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...
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Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
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Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.
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Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple's Style
Apple may well be the only tech company on the planet that would dare compare itself to Picasso.
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Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms
Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...
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A Room Where Executives Go to Get Help from IBM's Watson
IBM researchers are experimenting with a room where executives can go to discuss business problems with a version of the Watson supercomputing system.
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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley
Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots.
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Expanding the Breadth and Impact of Cybersecurity and Privacy Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced two awards that will support projects addressing grand challenges in cybersecurity and computer science.
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel’s Genevieve Bell
Anthropologist Genevieve Bell is vice president of Intel Labs, where she oversees a team dedicated to figuring out how technology is changing society, and vice...
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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Nasa Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations...
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Why Many Programmers Don't Bother Joining the ACM
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...
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The Nsa's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
Keith Alexander, the recently retired director of the National Security Agency, left many in Washington slack-jawed when it was reported that he might charge companies...
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The Remarkable Story of the nderwater Internet
In October of 1971, in the midst of the Cold War, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Halibut entered heavily guarded Russian waters in the Sea of Okhotsk.
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