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Trump's Plan to Keep America First in AI
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Meet the Blind YouTubers Making the Internet More Accessible
Visually impaired creators are a lifeline for those who share their disability—and they're educating and making allies of sighted people along the way.
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Don't Fear the Robot Overlords; Embrace Them as Coworkers
In a chilly warehouse just outside of Boston, the brute toils away. It's 600 pounds of orange and black metal and whirring motors, a massive robotic arm that picks...
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The US Needs to Engage China on Tech, Or Risk Isolating Itself
The contrast could hardly be more striking. In October, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a blistering speech accusing China of stealing prized US technology...
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The Ingredients Powering the DOD's New Nonlethal Weapons
We may never know whether Cuba attacked American diplomats with microwave weapons—but we do know similar devices exist.
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Why the Search for Aliens Could Unite Us Here on Earth
If aliens are trying to talk to us (or even if they are not), Jill Tarter will be the one to find them.
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The Human Cell Atlas Is Biologists' Latest Grand Project
Aviv Regev speaks with the urgent velocity of someone who has seen the world with an extraordinary new acuity, and can't wait for you to hurry up and see it too...
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Germany's Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech on Track
Of the many acronyms engineers spend their lives internalizing, few are more valuable than KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Constrain the problem, reduce the variables...
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Why Animal Extinction Is Crippling Computer Science
The convergence of computer science and biology has the potential to yield new perspectives on fundamental biological problems.
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The Latest Course Catalog Trend? Blockchain 101
A growing number of classes and research initiatives on blockchain technology are emerging at universities. Applications for the technology are springing up in...
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Melinda Gates' New Research Reveals Alarming Diversity Numbers
Research from Melinda Gates in partnership with McKinsey & Company says that 32 large tech companies spend very little of their philanthropic dollars attempting...
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AI Is the Future–But Where Are the Women?
The numbers of men and women who had contributed work at three top machine learning conferences in 2017 suggest the group supposedly charting society's future is...
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Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
Chris Monroe's vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them.
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Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars
Listen, I get it. You want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. (Sort of.) And the plan—it's good.
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Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't
Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam.
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Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend.
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