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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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Live the Maddening Life of a Traffic Engineer with a $3 Game
The air sings with four-letter words. The iPad sits stoic as fingers poke, jab, and prod at its screen.
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Udacity Launches an Online Course for Flying Car Engineers
Udacity will inaugurate the Flying Car Nanodegree Program, which promises to prepare students for a job in the Jetsons-y industry.
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What I Learned at Gerrymandering Summer Camp
At 6'5", Aaron Dennis towers over the whiteboard beside him.
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One-Time Allies Sour on Joining Trump's Tech Team
Prsident Trump's victory caught Garrett Johnson—and the rest of humanity—by surprise.
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Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees
Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it...
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Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent
Defense Secretary James Mattis has a lot on his mind these days. North Korea, obviously. China's expanding claims on the South China sea. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...
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Andrew Ng Spreads the Gospel of AI With a New Online School
Andrew Ng is a soft-spoken AI researcher whose online postings talk loudly.
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To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart
The toughest thing to convey to newcomers at the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas this weekend? Just how far they could go with hacking voting machines set up...
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The College Course Where the Military Assigns the Homework
This spring, as part of their coursework, four Stanford University students found themselves in Coronado, California, doing pushups on the beach and charging into...
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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Watson Won Jeopardy, But Is It Smart Enough to Spin Big Blue's AI Into Green?
In retrospect, there was much more at stake than a mere $1 million when IBM's Watson computer faced off against two Jeopardy! champions back in 2011.
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AI and 'Enormous Data' Could Make Tech Giants Harder to Topple
Another week, another record-breaking AI research study released by Google—this time with results that are a reminder of a crucial business dynamic of the current...
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Two Giants of AI Team Up to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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The Quantum Computer Factory That's Taking on Google and IBM
A few yards from the stockpile of La Croix in the warehouse space behind startup Rigetti Computing's offices in Fremont, California, sits a machine like a steampunk...
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The Beeping, Gargling History of Gaming's Most Iconic Sounds
The bouncy beeps of Pac-Man. The percussive build-up in Legend of Zelda. The effusive gibberish of The Sims. The sounds in videogames tell us to speed up, start...
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...
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Who Will Pay for the Future If Not the Robots?
RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?
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Gaze Upon Jupiter's Enormity in This Amazing Fly-By Video
Latest view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft from Enneagon on Vimeo.
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Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War
A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. "Incoming. Take cover," it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.
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