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Verizon and Smithsonian Launch AR Museums
As COVID-19 restrictions continue, Verizon is helping Smithsonian put interactive museum content online.
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Trump Moves to Tighten Visa Access for High-Skilled Foreign Workers
The Trump administration has announced stricter rules for the H-1B visa program, which U.S. tech companies have long valued.
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Changing Course, U.S. Allows Visas for Online Students
The Trump administration said it would no longer require foreign students to attend in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic in order to remain in the...
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Are Companies More Productive in a Pandemic?
Many claim their employees are hyper efficient while working from home. But there are social and emotional costs to ambition in isolation.
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A U.S. Secret Weapon in A.I.: Chinese Talent
New research shows scientists educated in China help American firms and schools dominate the cutting-edge AI field. Industry leaders worry that worsening political...
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Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers
Google, facing an advertising slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, has rescinded offers to several thousand people who had agreed to work at the company as temporary...
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A Few Cities Have Cornered Innovation Jobs. Can That Be Changed?
A report found that 13 innovation industries were mainly sited in a handful of urban areas in the U.S.
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AI Researchers See Danger of Haves, Have-Nots
The growing cost of artificial intelligence research means that fewer people can easily access computing power to advance the technology, which scientists warn...
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When the AI Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says
A study by researchers from the University of Rochester found an exodus of artificial intelligence professors from North American universities to the private sector...
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How a State Plans to Turn Coal Country Into Coding Country
Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science.
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The Gender Gap in Computer Science Research Won't Close for 100 Years
Women will not reach parity with men in writing published computer science research in this century if current trends hold, according to a new study from the Allen...
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Tech Workers Are Sick of '996,' China's Version of Hustle Culture
Chinese programmers once embraced working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. But online, discontent is brewing.
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A New Recruitment Tool for Construction: The Joystick
Plastic excavators, bulldozers and cranes fueled by imagination have long captivated toddlers. Now, the construction industry is trying to attract teenagers with...
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In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical niverse
On the evening of March 19, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck gathered with revelers at the Institute for Advanced Study for a champagne reception.
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Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
Jerry Merryman, a self-taught electrical engineer who helped design the first pocket calculator, died on Feb. 27 in Dallas. He was 86.
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Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
What are your most important tech tools for reporting in Shanghai, especially with a government known for surveillance?
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The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know
A few years ago, the leaders of the College Board, the folks who administer the SAT college entrance exam, asked themselves a radical question: Of all the skills...
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Making New Drugs With a Dose of Artificial Intelligence
You can think of it as a World Cup of biochemical research.
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is...
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The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class
On campuses across the United States, from major state universities to small private colleges, the surge in student demand for computer science courses is far outstripping...
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Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm
About 150 Jersey cows in the rolling terrain at Rivendale Farms in Bulger, some 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, wear Fitbit-like collars that monitor their movement...
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