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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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Wanted: Ideas for Protecting Against Small Unmanned Air Systems
DARPA's Mobile Force Protection program invites input on sensing and neutralization technologies to defend U.S. forces against quickly evolving unmanned airborne...
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Digital Transformation: How Machine Learning Could Help Change Business
Machine learning (ML) based data analytics is rewriting the rules for how enterprises handle data.
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Udacity Launches an Online Course for Flying Car Engineers
Udacity will inaugurate the Flying Car Nanodegree Program, which promises to prepare students for a job in the Jetsons-y industry.
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One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a synthetic soft muscle with a strain density 15 times larger than natural muscle, and able to lift 1,000 times...
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'RoVR' Brings Man's Best Friend to Virtual Reality
"RoVR is a virtual reality and augmented reality simulator dog simulator for people who can't accommodate a living, breathing pet.
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You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even ...
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Data Swamped U.S. Spy Agencies Put Hopes on Artificial Intelligence
Swamped by too much raw intel data to sift through, U.S. spy agencies are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence to crunch billions of digital bits and...
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How Neural Networks Think
Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a technique that sheds light on the inner workings of neural networks...
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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Nissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans.
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iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home
About a month ago, iRobot CEO Colin Angle mentioned something about sharing Roomba mapping data in an interview with Reuters.
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IBM and MIT Bet That Materials and Quantum Advances Will Supercharge AI
A new $240 million center at MIT may help advance the field of artificial intelligence by developing novel devices and materials to power the latest machine-learning...
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In a High-Tech World, Car Designers Still Rely on Clay
Car designers have every kind of software and virtual reality tool. But when they want to make sure a car's curves look just right, they rely on one of the world's...
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Water and Air: Flying Fish UAAV Can Go Anywhere
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are developing a fixed-wing, unmanned vehicle that can autonomously operate underwater and then propel itself into the air...
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Scanning the Future, Radiologists See Their Jobs at Risk
In health care, you could say radiologists have typically had a pretty sweet deal.
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Banks Look to Step Up Employee Surveillance
Banks already using algorithms to monitor traders are looking to expand surveillance to cover more employees in the wake of the Wells Fargo & Co. scandal.
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Why a 24-Year-Old Chipmaker Is One of Tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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Putin: Leader in Artificial Intelligence Will Rule World
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that whoever reaches a breakthrough in developing artificial intelligence will come to dominate the world.
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AI Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown that neural networks can accurately analyze complex distortions in...
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