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Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Despite Controversy, Superconductor Research Is In A 'Golden Age'
Despite some high-profile setbacks, the field of superconductivity is enjoying something of a renaissance, researchers say.
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Despite the Hype Over Gene Therapy, Few Drugs Are Close to Approval
Most experts in the medical field will tell you that gene therapy has finally come of age, but the numbers tell a different story.
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Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple's virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond...
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Three Grand Challenges For Brain Science That Can Be Solved in 10 Years
One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the human brain.
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Pay Attention! Tesla's Autopilot Will Lock Out Lackadaisical Drivers
Driver-assist functions are coming quickly these days.
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The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature
Smartphones can tell you when to depart for the airport to make your flight, provide voice-guided directions on the way there, and route around traffic jams.
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Apple's New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data
Ten years ago, researchers at Microsoft introduced a breakthrough approach to protecting privacy in the age of big data. Later this year their idea, known as differential...
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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The Hr Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot
The next time you’re hired, you might find yourself getting information about payroll, vacations, and expenses by talking to a chatbot instead of consulting a handbook...
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Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter's Latest Production
At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15 minutes at a cost...
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How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It
Smart watches aren't exactly models of efficiency—they require one hand to operate while the other wrist wears it. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers...
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
Under a bench at Sang-Young Lee’s lab is an ordinary, somewhat beat-up ink-jet printer he has modified so that it spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy...
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Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips
Back in 1997, Andy Grove, then chief executive officer of Intel, became one of the first corporate titans to embrace the teachings of Harvard Business School professor...
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Basic Income: A Sellout of the American Dream
Matt Krisiloff is in a small, glass-walled conference room off the lobby of Y Combinator’s office in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, shouting distance...
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The All-American Iphone
Donald Trump says that if he becomes president, he will "get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China." Bernie Sanders...
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First Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Enigma Machine
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.
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Companies Are Stockpiling Bitcoin to Pay Off Cybercriminals
Digital currency Bitcoin is variously promoted as an alternative to gold, a good way to make international transfers, or the future of e-commerce. New research...
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Algorithms That Learn with Less Data Could Expand Ai's Power
Last year Microsoft and Google both showed that their image-recognition algorithms had learned to best humans.
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Inside Vicarious, the Secretive AI Startup Bringing Imagination to Computers
Life would be pretty dull without imagination. In fact, maybe the biggest problem for computers is that they don't have any.
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Search For New Medical Treatments Zeroes in on Genetic Superheroes
The hunt is on for people who are healthy—even though their genes say they shouldn't be.
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Tenure-track Faculty Position in Quantum Computing - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Canada
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New York, NY, United States