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One-Third of Science Ph.D.s Lose Interest in Academic Careers
Factors other than low expectations of landing a faculty job are discouraging young science and engineering Ph.D.s from pursuing…
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Digital Transformation: How Machine Learning Could Help Change Business
Machine learning (ML) based data analytics is rewriting the rules for how enterprises handle data.
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With the USS McCain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Wanted: Weaponized Exploits that Hack Phones. Will Pay Top Dollar
In a sign of the soaring demand for zeroday attacks that target software that's becoming increasingly secure, a market-leading broker is offering serious cash for...
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There's a Debate Raging in Science About What Should Count as 'Significant'
Psychology and many related fields are in the midst of what can be viewed as a coming-of-age crisis.
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'Influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...
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Nvidia and Remedy Use Neural Networks for Eerily Good Facial Animation
Remedy, the developer behind the likes of Alan Wake and Quantum Break, has teamed up with GPU-maker Nvidia to streamline one of the more costly parts of modern...
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Level Up: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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Wimbledon 2017: The Tech Behind the World's Top Tennis Tournament
The Championships at Wimbledon, which consumes some 28 tons of strawberries, 10,000 litres of cream, and 320,000 glasses of Pimm's per year, is notable for its...
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The Strange and Righteous History of the Equals Sign
Robert Recorde was one of those people so extraordinarily ahead of his time that he seemed destined to come to a tragic end.
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'Internet of Ships' Tells Tale of USS Fitzgerald Tragedy, Or Half of It
On early Saturday morning off the coast of Japan, the Philippines-flagged cargo container carrierACX Crystal struck the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) on its starboard...
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First the Cloud, Now AI Takes on the Scientific Method
Back when I was doing research, one of my advisors once joked that, if you wait long enough, you can produce an old result using new methods, manage to get it published...
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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? Uncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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The State of the Car Computer: Forget Horsepower, We Want Megahertz!
If I asked you "how many computing devices do you own?" your mind will probably first jump to your PCs and laptops at home, and then to your smartphones and tablets...
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Microsoft's Bid to Bring AI to Every Developer Is Starting to Make Sense
For the third year in a row, Microsoft is heavily promoting machine-learning services at its Build developer conference.
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Elon Musk Is Setting Up a Company that Will Link Brains and Computers
Billionaire futurist space explorer Elon Musk has a new project: a "medical research company" called Neuralink that will make brain-computer interfaces.
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Jet Lag Hits for Power Against Major League Ballplayers
Baseball, America's pastime, has been part of the nation’s culture for more than 140 years—we go to games, watch games on TV, and teach our kids to play.
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Watch Out Hackers: Deploying Ransomware Is Now a Crime in California
As of January 1, the delivery of ransomware is illegal in California thanks to Senate Bill 1137 going into effect.
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Six Contractors Have Begun Work on NASA's Gateway to Deep Space
NASA has a problem.
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A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.
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