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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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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Nissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans.
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Why a 24-Year-Old Chipmaker Is One of Tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
In the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up offering an unusual promise: Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months and join the...
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The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
The technology world's $400 billion-and-up club—long a group of exclusively American names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon—needs to make room...
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How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China's Tech Ambitions
As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping.
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Gene Editing for 'Designer Babies'? Highly Unlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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As Washington Tries to Protect Tech, China Could Fight Back
As the Trump administration moves to take on China over intellectual property, Washington will find it has limited firepower.
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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In Reporting on North Korea, Tech Helps Break Through Secrecy
How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Choe Sang-Hun, The Times's Korea correspondent who is based in Seoul...
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A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree
A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied...
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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...
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The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence?
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The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed
As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, Geoffrey Everest Hinton thought a lot about the brain. He wanted to better understand how it worked but was frustrated...
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Uncle Sam Wants Your Deep Neural Networks
The Department of Homeland Security is turning to data scientists to improve screening techniques at airports.
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...
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