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'Blockchain Developer' Is the Fastest-Growing U.S. Job
"Blockchain developer" is the top emerging job in the U.S., according to data published in LinkedIn's 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs…
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More Than an Auto-Pilot, AI Charts Its Course in Aviation
Ask anyone what they think of when the words "artificial intelligence" and aviation are combined, and it's likely the first things they'll mention are drones.
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Facebook Yanks Content Tied to Iranian Effort Due to 'Inauthentic Behavior'
Today, Facebook took down 30 pages, 33 Facebook accounts, three Facebook groups, and 16 Instagram accounts that Facebook's head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel...
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AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work
Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products...
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten Up AI in Space
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTUS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution in Hurricane Forecasting
A dramatic increase in computing power helps explain the dramatic increase in hurricane forecast accuracy over the past 20 years.
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Amazon Blocks Domain Fronting, Threatens to Shut Down Signal's Account
Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's...
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Despite Backlash, Loot Boxes Could Be Essential to Gaming's Future
With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these days, you might think the practice of charging...
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Army Researchers Find the Best Cyber Teams Are Antisocial Cyber Teams
Army researchers have discovered what experienced information security teams already know: actual human interaction isn't a key to success when you already know...
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What the Latest Strike on Syria Succeeded At (and What It Didn't)
On April 13, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom launched the largest barrage of cruise missiles since the opening of the Gulf War.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond User Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Non-Lethal Weapon: DOD Seeks to Use Lasers to Create Shouting Will-O-the-Wisp
The Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Development Program (JNLWD) is closing in on a directed energy weapon that can literally tell people to go...
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Developers Love Trendy New Languages but Earn More with Functional Programming
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...
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World War II Carrier 'Lady Lex' Found 2 Miles Under Sea by Allen Expedition
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has put his money into many passion pursuits. Underwater archaeology—specifically, finding ships sunk during World War...
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Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...
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German Navy Experiences 'lcs Syndrome' in Spades as New Frigate Fails Sea Trials
The German Navy has a lot of problems right now.
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Microsoft's 'ink to Code' Turns Drawings Into User Interfaces
Sketching out rough ideas—traditionally on the back of a napkin in the US, backs of envelopes being preferred in the UK—is a common and important part of the design...
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License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch
Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...
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Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
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