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Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database
Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
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Robots Alone Can't Solve Amazon's Labor Woes
As Amazon scrambles to automate its warehouses to boost efficiency, it's creating a new human-robot hybrid workforce.
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Amazon Pledges $700 Million to Teach Its Workers to Code
Amazon announced Thursday that it will spend up to $700 million over the next six years retraining 100,000 of its U.S. employees.
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Another Ripple From the Huawei Ban: Scientific Peer Review
The Trump administration's decision to blacklist Chinese telecom giant Huawei is spilling over into academia. IEEE publications will stop using Huawei employees...
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What Tech Companies Pay Employees In 2019
Filings by publicly traded companies reveal that big tech firms pay extraordinarily well.
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Visa Rejections for Tech Workers Spike nder Trump
Thousands of current U.S. tech workers have had their H-1B visas suddenly rejected thanks to new policies implemented by the Trump Administration.
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Want a Tech Job? Silicon Valley Is Still Your Best Bet
While communities across the United States are trying to lure high-tech jobs to their areas, Silicon Valley's share of tech job listings is growing, not shrinking...
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How to Keep Parents From Fleeing STEM Careers
STEM jobs are often defined by long hours and an "all or nothing" work ethos. New research suggests that the industry poses outsize challenges for male and female...
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DARPA Wants to Solve Science's Replication Crisis With Robots
DARPA has promised $7.6 million to a nonprofit organization that's leading the charge to fix the "reproducibility crisis" in science.
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What Trump's Executive Order on AI Is Missing
President Trump signed an executive order on February 11 meant to shore up our competitive position in the international race for AI supremacy, but it is short...
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Trump's Plan to Keep America First in AI
The US leads the world in artificial intelligence technology. Decades of federal research funding, industrial and academic research, and streams of foreign talent...
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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 S 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 nite s 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...