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Colleges are trying to figure out who'll actually succeed in a computer science program, and they're starting to find some interesting insights.
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Popular science outlets and tech pundits are getting the wrong idea about chips built to function more like biological neurons.
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The age of cyber warfare in now upon us. But we can't just panic. We need a realistic survey of our vulnerabilities and a strategy to mitigate them.
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The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
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Tron Legacy didn't just have countless special effects and a custom soundtrack, it managed to cram in a massive dose of tech utopianism.
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The definition of what constitutes artificial intelligence is still highly subjective.
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If Nicholas Carr's attention span has been undermined by technology, he reasons that so has everyone else's and it's his duty to warn us.
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Defining artificial intelligence is a very difficult problem, both philosophically and mathematically. So it's little wonder some people interested in AI want to take some shortcuts...
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Before we build practical quantum computers, we need to learn how to read quantum states. One idea may be to make the circuits bigger. Much bigger. At least on a nano scale that is...
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Famed physicist Roger Penrose and an Arizona doctor are claiming that our brains are quantum computer in a white paper that will surely be seized by the woo faithful as proof of "quantum consciousness."