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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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Nine Charts That Really Bring Home Just How Fast AI Is Growing
With so much hype surrounding artificial intelligence today, it can be difficult to know where things actually stand. Fortunately, a report (.pdf) issued by a group...
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CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-Edited Babies
Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the technology to create gene-edited babies. ...
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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Cyber-Skills Shortage Means Students Are Being Recruited to Fight Off Hackers
Students with little or no cybersecurity knowledge are being paired with easy-to-use AI software that lets them protect the Texas A&M campus from attack.
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China's Leaders Are Softening Their Stance on AI
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
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US Takes First Step Toward a Quantum Computing Workforce
Quantum computers promise to transform computer security, finance, and many other fields by solving certain problems far faster than conventional machines.
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Life As a Bug Bounty Hunter: A Struggle Every Day, Just to Get Paid
Evan Ricafort works from home, his office taking up a room in a house that he shares with his family along a national highway in the Philippines.
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The 'Neuropolitics' Consultants Who Hack Voters' Brains
Maria Pocovi slides her laptop over to me with the webcam switched on.
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Why AI Researchers Shouldn't Turn Their Backs on the Military
More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill....
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AI Can Now Tell Your Boss What Skills You Lack – And How You Can Get Them
Coursera has unveiled a machine learning tool that shows companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes and their level of expertise.
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DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
The U.S. military agency is worried the United States could lose its edge in semiconductor chips.
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Million-Person Genetic Study Finds Gene Patterns Linked to How Long People Stay in School
The largest-ever genetic study on human cognition has found more than 1,000 links between people's genes and how far they get in school.
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The US May Have Just Pulled Even with China in the Race to Build Supercomputing's Next Big Thing
There was much celebrating in America last month when the US Department of Energy unveiled Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer. Now the race is on to achieve...
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Why Robots Helped Donald Trump Win
Ronald Shrewsbery II used to be the Robot Doctor. Now he's known by the more bureaucratic-sounding title "WCM (World Class Manufacturing) Electrical Technical Specialist...
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35 Innovators Under 35 2018
We've been presenting our list of innovators under 35 for 18 years, long enough to spot some trends.
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Microsoft Is Creating an Oracle for Catching Biased AI Algorithms
Microsoft is building a tool to automatically identify bias in a range of different AI algorithms.
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Subcutaneous Fitbits? These Cows Are Modeling the Tracking Technology of the Future
Somewhere on a dairy farm in Wellsville, Utah, are three cyborg cows, indistinguishable from the rest of the herd.
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Sitting with the Cyber-Sleuths Who Track Cryptocurrency Criminals
Spiky yellow and blue shapes begin to fill a screen that spans an entire wall in a lab at Imperial College London.
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How the AI Cloud Could Produce the Richest Companies Ever
For years, Swami Sivasubramanian's wife has wanted to get a look at the bears that come out of the woods on summer nights to plunder the trash cans at their suburban...
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AR Still Doesn't Have a Killer App, but Google's ARCore Is Here to Help
You may not have a real Porsche in your driveway, but augmented reality will now let you plonk a virtual one there using a smartphone—and take it for a simulated...
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University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LuxembourgThe University of Luxembourg is a multilingual...
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St. John's University, Queens, New York, United StatesThe Institution Established in 1870, St. John...