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Amazon, Google Poised for Race to Hire High-Tech Talent
Amazon and Google are respectively planning to recruit Microsoft C#- and Java-savvy engineers and Python users in a fierce competition for technology talent.
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AI Could Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous, Harder to Detect
Scientists warn that hackers could weaponize artificial intelligence to conceal and accelerate cyberattacks and potentially escalate their damage.
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Amazon Picks New York City, Northern Virginia for Its HQ2 Locations
E-commerce giant is expected to make announcement on HQ2 cities as soon as Tuesday.
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Talent Gap Widens as Firms Battle for AI, Data Skills
A new study predicts demand for information technology workers will outstrip supply, due to growth in digital technologies, tighter labor markets, and few workers...
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The Robot Revolution Is Coming, and Dang Is It Cute
How adorable robots are may be a critical factor for their public acceptance.
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UC Berkeley's Fastest-Growing Class Is Data Science 101
The University of California, Berkeley's introduction to data science course is the fastest-growing class on campus.
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Grocers Enlist Robots to Chase E-Commerce
Grocers are deploying robots and artificial intelligence to boost warehouse efficiency amid intensifying competition for consumer food spending.
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Perfecting Crops With AI-Powered Indoor Farms
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory's Open Agriculture Initiative has developed a self-contained indoor farm.
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How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
The world's companies are in the initial stages of what might be called the "physical cloud," an e-commerce ecosystem that functions like the Internet.
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Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds
Election machines used in more than half of U.S. states contain a decade-old flaw that makes them vulnerable to a cyberattack.
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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You
The Common Business-Oriented Language (Cobol) remains the most prevalent programming language in the financial services industry worldwide.
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Women Tech Hiring Sees Minuscule Growth, Short of Hopes
Women were represented in 24% of technical roles this year, with growth of 1.09% over last year, according to an AnitaB.org survey. About 13% of technical roles...
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Holograms Are Helping Medical Training
San Diego State University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are testing mixed-reality software for the education of nurse trainees.
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The U-2 Spy Plane Is Still Flying Combat Missions 60 Years After Its Debut
Six decades after the U-2 flew its first mission, the military is trying to harness artificial-intelligence technology to enhance the venerable spy plane's combat...
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The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other
Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...
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JPMorgan Taps Carnegie Mellon Professor for New AI Role
Manuela Veloso will build on the U.S. bank's existing work applying machine learning technology.
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Who Has More of Your Personal Data Than Facebook? Try Google
Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy...
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Next Worry for Facebook: Disenchanted Users
Facebook Inc.'s handling of user data has upset lawmakers and regulators in multiple countries. But the biggest risk to its business could come from angry users...
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Targeting China, Trump Threatens Student Visas. That Would Hit a Big U.S. Export
The Trump administration's proposed crackdown on China's trade practices could hit one sector where the U.S. runs a big trade surplus: higher education.
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