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Video Game Players Avoid Gay Characters

Cornel Nesseler | Opinion

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Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back

Manon Bischoff

Engineering

For the ‘First Lady of Engineering,’ Freedom Meant Facing Down Racism and Sexism—And Breaking Her Own Rules

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Frequent Breaks in Undersea Pipelines Mean Fixes Are Possible for Nord Stream

While international experts try to figure out what caused the ruptures in the Nord Stream pipeline, engineers have multiple options to try and fix it

Lars Fischer | Opinion

Diversity

Video Game Players Avoid Gay Characters

Cornel Nesseler | Opinion

Statistics

Statistics Are Being Abused, but Mathematicians Are Fighting Back

Manon Bischoff

Engineering

For the ‘First Lady of Engineering,’ Freedom Meant Facing Down Racism and Sexism—And Breaking Her Own Rules

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

Biotech

Moth Wings Are Beautiful in Infrared Light

Daniel Lingenhöhl and Sasha Warren

Biotech

AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Zeeya Merali and Nature magazine

Engineering

The First Lady of Engineering: Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1

Katie Hafner, Carol Sutton Lewis and The Lost Women of Science Initiative

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How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk

Os Keyes and Abraham D. Flaxman | Opinion

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries

Ben Shneiderman | Opinion

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A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job

Acquaintances, more than close friends, show the strength of “weak ties” when it comes to employment

Viviane Callier

Artificial Intelligence

Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters

Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient?

Leonardo De Cosmo

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries

For humanity’s brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists

Ben Shneiderman | Opinion

Artificial Intelligence

This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby

Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies’ brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts...

Christopher Intagliata

How Census Data Put Trans Children at Risk

The Census Bureau must improve its data anonymization methods to protect vulnerable groups

Os Keyes and Abraham D. Flaxman | Opinion

Making Computer Chips Act More like Brain Cells

Flexible organic circuits that mimic biological neurons could increase processing speed and might someday hook right into your head

Kurt Kleiner and Knowable Magazine

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Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2020

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Roe v. Wade Was Overturned: Here's How Your Phone Could Be Used to Spy on You

From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe world.

June 24, 2022

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Did Your Catalytic Converter Get Stolen? The Pandemic--and Rhodium--Could Share Some Blame

December 20, 2021

Computing

What is 'The Cloud' and How Does it Pervade Our Lives?

December 1, 2021

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What Is a Smart Grid, and How Might One Protect Our Energy Future?

November 4, 2021

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What Is 5G? Here Is a Short Video Primer

October 13, 2021

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This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby

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