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Programming Languages: Don't Bother Learning These in 2019
Codementor, a startup, has identified the top five programming languages not worth learning last year: Dart, Objective-C, CoffeeScript…
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Introducing Scratch 3.0
The new version of Scratch adds characters, compatibility, and curricula to the creative coding platform for kids.
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Zimbabwe Computer Whizkid Breaks Barriers
But how does someone like Bongani Jubani, born and bred in the remote area of Zimbabwe, become computer literate when they have never used a computer, let alone...
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Will the World Embrace the Radical Proposal to Mandate Open Access to Science Papers?
Europe-backed Plan S program aims to convince the world's major research funders to require immediate open access to all published papers stemming from their grants...
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U.S. Senate Confirms Trump's Science Adviser After Two-Year Vacancy
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist, as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Scientific Sonnets: Duke Team Wins Competition for Poetry-Generating Algorithm
A team of Duke University researchers won the 2018 PoetiX Literary Creative Turing Test contest for an algorithm that composed the most "human-like" sonnets.
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Researchers Design a More Durable MEMS Switch
The new type of MEMS switch can extend the life of cell phones and make power lines more reliable.
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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Tech's Winning (and Losing) Jobs in 2019
The "2019 IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index" from Foote Partners forecasts the roles and key skills that will increase in value, as well as those that might...
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Scientists Move Quantum Optic Networks a Step Closer to Reality
A team of researchers has successfully measured how nanoplatelets interact with light in three dimensions, an advancement that could enhance the operation of quantum...
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Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
When most scientists were trying to make people use code to talk to computers, Karen Sparck Jones taught computers to understand human language instead.
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Why Python Is the Real Programming Language of Data Science
There is significantly less job demand for data engineers proficient in R than those proficient in Python, according to a Cloud Academy report.
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Diversity in the Lab Makes Me a Better Scientist
An international environment forces you to consider different perspectives to begin with and helps you to communicate your ideas more clearly in the end.
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Developing the Job Skills Needed for a Future Economy
The Global Innovation Exchange, a new graduate program partnership between the University of Washington and China's Tsinghua University, with foundational support...
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Silicon Valley Worker Shortage Creates Upside-Down Labor Market
Workers with a high school diploma have lower unemployment rates than those with bachelor's degrees or higher in some Bay Area counties.
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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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Potential Benefits of Next-Generation Wargames
Technological advances for game engines and cloud architectures are fueling the development of next-generation wargames that can increase insights for policymakers...
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Julia Language Co-Creators Win Prize for Numerical Software
Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language are the recipients of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Analysis and Scientific...
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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The Top Free Online University Courses of 2018
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