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Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success – It's About Cutting Wages
The campaign for code education isn't about giving the next generation a shot at earning the salary of a Facebook engineer. It's…
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AP Computer Science Draws in More Girls, Minorities
More young women took an Advanced Placement computer science exam in 2016 than in 2007 through 2013 combined, mainly because of the College Board's new AP CS Principles...
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The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
The technology world's $400 billion-and-up club—long a group of exclusively American names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon—needs to make room...
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Engineer's Model Lays Groundwork for Machine-Learning Device
An engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has taken steps toward using nanocrystal networks for artificial intelligence applications.
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Chatbot Helps Prospective Students Find the Right Courses
Leeds Beckett University has launched a chatbot to help prospective students find the right courses.
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Science Doesn't Explain Tech's Diversity Problem – History Does
The idea that women or people of color lack the innate qualities that white men possess to succeed in high-status, elite professions is decades old. It is a tired...
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'It Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them
For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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Global Rankings of Computer Science Universities, 2017
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has released the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017. The report ranks more than 4,000 universities in 52 subjects.
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Scientists Debate How to Bring Red Planet Rocks to Earth
With NASA's sample-caching 2020 Mars rover mission just around the corner, the best strategy for hauling Red Planet rock and dirt to Earth is a now a topic of considerable...
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The Problem With Tech Diversity Reports
Tech companies have gotten in the practice of releasing diversity reports, but are those reports aren't transparent enough.
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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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Reverence for Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation
Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds—1,500 a minute, to be exact—on humming...
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World's Largest Data Center to be Built in Arctic Circle
A U.S.-Norwegian joint venture will build the world's largest data center in a small town north of the Arctic Circle.
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Defeating Cyberattacks on 3-D Printers
Rutgers University and Georgia Tech engineers have devised three ways to combat cyberattacks on 3-D printers.
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China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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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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Study Finds Tweets Change When You Are Sick
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studied tweets to understand how people behave differently on social media when they are sick.
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Virtual Detectives Use Social Media to Study Global Fashion Trends
Cornell University researchers tapped the billions of photographs uploaded daily to photo-sharing services and social media platforms to understand worldwide fashion...
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De-Jargonizing Program Helps Decode Science Speak
To help scientists recognize which words are jargon and should be avoided or explained when engaging with the public, researchers have created a program that automatically...
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NASA Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets
NASA has selected six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals for concept studies.
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