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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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Researchers Use Machine Learning to Spot Counterfeit Consumer Products
A team of researchers has developed a mechanism that uses machine-learning algorithms to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit versions of the same product...
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Meet the Company That's Using Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene
In China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.
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Colleges Have Increased Women Computer Science Majors: What Can Google Learn?
A Google engineer who got fired over a controversial memo that criticized the company's diversity policies said that there might be biological reasons there are...
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D.I.Y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
Not much about Makoto Koike's adult life suggests that he would be a farmer.
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'I Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day'
After the full repeal of Obamacare stalled in the Senate last month, one of the sharpest and most-shared online rebukes of the Republican turncoats came from one...
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Wild New Microchip Tech Could Grow Brain Cells on Your Skin
It's usually bad news to have something growing on your skin, but new technology uses that all important layer as a sort of garden to "grow" whatever types of cells...
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How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China's Tech Ambitions
As the Chinese government develops drones, the American technology giant Qualcomm is helping.
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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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Inside Sony's Search for the Next Walkman
Sony Corp., which is emerging from five years of brutal restructuring that gutted its workforce and product lineup, wants to show off a few new things.
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Bot and Bothered
Facebook has been working on artificial intelligence that claims to be great at negotiating, makes up its own language and learns to lie.
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Gene Editing for 'Designer Babies'? Highly Unlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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Biological Teleporter Could Seed Life Through Galaxy
The first biological teleporter sits in a lab on the lower level of the San Diego building that houses Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), looking something like a super...
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There's a Debate Raging in Science About What Should Count as 'Significant'
Psychology and many related fields are in the midst of what can be viewed as a coming-of-age crisis.
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The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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Apple Defends Complying with China Over VPNs
Virtual Private Networks are often used to skirt censorship and surveillance in countries with tight restrictions on internet use.
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As Washington Tries to Protect Tech, China Could Fight Back
As the Trump administration moves to take on China over intellectual property, Washington will find it has limited firepower.
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'Influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...
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NASA Enhances Online Scientific Tool Used by Hundreds Worldwide
Hundreds of scientists worldwide currently use an online application that accesses at least one terabyte of data to calculate everything from the spectrum of an...
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Editing Human Embryos with CRISPR Is Moving Ahead; Now's the Time to Work Out the Ethics
The announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they've successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise.
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