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Researchers Explain How Stereotypes Keep Girls Out of Computer Science Classes
Educators need to start earlier and set a strong foundation to resolve the gender gap in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
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The Tremendous Ambitions Behind New York City's Free Wifi
At this very moment in New York City, you can walk up to one of 65 futuristic kiosks, punch in an email address on your phone and instantly receive a wireless Internet...
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The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets
Demand for chatting virtual assistants and other artificial intelligence products is creating favorable job prospects for writers, poets, comedians, and others. ...
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.
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If Killer Robots Arrive, the Terminator Will Be the Least of Our Problems
Experts warned of the threat of autonomous weaponry at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Google Opens p About When Its Self-Driving Cars Have Nearly Crashed
Google says its fleet of automated vehicles, currently undergoing testing, have had 13 near-misses in which a driver had to intervene to prevent a collision.
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The New Way Police Are Surveilling You: Calculating Your Threat 'score'
While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect's...
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The Billion-Dollar Robot Question--How Can We Make Sure They're Safe?
The advent of unsupervised robots raises the question of how to ensure their safety.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.
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A Data Genius Has Figured Out the ltimate Beer-Drinking Road Trip
Data scientist Nathan Yau created a map of the top breweries in the U.S., and then determined the most efficient route to use to visit them.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Vast ndersea Network that Makes the Internet Work
Russians submarines and spy ships are "ggressively operating" near the undersea cables that are the backbone of the global Internet—worrying some U.S. intelligence...
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How Human Nature Could Foil Tesla's New Autopilot
Researchers and driving safety experts warn the new autopilot option installed in most Tesla vehicles could cause unsafe conditions.
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Self-Healing Airplanes
Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University have launched an Aerospace Data Analytics Lab to mine insights from the vast body of data generated by the aerospace industry...
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How Google's Self-Driving Cars May Handle the Toughest Situations
Left-hand turns are one of the tougher things drivers have to do.
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The Strange Link Between Global Climate Change and the Rise of the Robots
A recent paper concluded humans would not stand a chance against super-intelligent robots following a hypothetical mass extinction event.
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This Algorithm Can Create a New Van Gogh or Picasso in Just an Hour
German researchers have outlined a method of using deep learning to turn regular photographs into images in the style of great painters.
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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Watson's Next Feat? Taking on Cancer
IBM's Watson supercomputer is being trained to find personalized cancer treatments.
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