This is how your brain makes your mind
Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.
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Generally covering the broad topics of computing and related technology.
Where computing might go next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past.
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Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law
The Dutch firm ASML spent $9 billion and 17 years developing a way to keep making denser computer chips.
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The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law
A shortage of microchips threatens to slow the decades of innovation fueled by the promise of ever faster, cheaper computing power.
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The Artificial Intelligence Database
The Artificial Intelligence Database: Explore the technology like never before with [WIRED’s] new database, which collects all of our stories on artificial intelligence and filters them by sector, source data, end user, company, and more.
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AI Ethics: A Call to Faculty
To say that AI, today, is a technical discipline is entirely naive: it is a social, worldwide experiment. Our tools have teeth that cut into the everyday lives of all, and this leaves a collection of engineers and scientists in the awkward position of having far more impact on the future than is their due.
…But AI ethics is not the science of ethics, but rather shorthand for the notion of applying ethical considerations to issues surfaced by AI technologies: surveillance, information ownership, privacy, emotional manipulation, agency, autonomous military operations, and so forth.
Women’s Lives in Code
Like Ullman’s memoir, “Halt and Catch Fire” rebuts the technology field’s chronic sexism by allowing its female characters to be as interesting, talented, and flawed as any male antihero.
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The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower
The deposit could power millions of clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, for which a mine might mean extinction.
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Levy profiles the imaginative brainiacs who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems. They had a shared sense of values, known as “the hacker ethic,” that still thrives today.
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Safe Systems Programming in Rust
In this article, we begin by giving the reader a bird’s-eye view of the Rust programming language, with an emphasis on some of the essential features of Rust that set it apart from its contemporaries. Second, we describe the initial progress made in the RustBelt project, an ongoing project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), whose goal is to provide the first formal (and machine-checked) foundations for the safety claims of Rust. In so doing, we hope to inspire other members of the computer science research community to start paying closer attention to Rust and to help contribute to the development of this groundbreaking language.
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Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community
This article sheds light on notable research efforts in the Arab world in each of the aforementioned areas of biomedical computing [biomedical imaging, biomedical signal analysis and bioinformatics]. It also demonstrates how this research addresses healthcare issues in the region.
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Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development
Here, we showcase regionally developed projects that explore the use of non-traditional data sources and AI to help measure progress toward the [Sustainable Development Goals].
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May I Borrow Your Covid Immunity?
Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.
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Building a Multilingual Wikipedia
In order to close these knowledge gaps we are building a multilingual Wikipedia where content is created only once but made available in all languages.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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Deep Learning Speeds MRI Scans
Facebook, the Palo Alto, CA-based online social network, has teamed up with radiologists at New York University’s Langone Medical Center in Manhattan to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging accelerator for MRI scanners.
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Everything VPN Is New Again
The growing number of end-user devices and a new layer of virtualization in datacenters has subtly but profoundly changed how the VPN abstraction fits into networking.
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Battery Day
Batteries are a part of everyday life; without them, the world would be a much different place. Your cellphone, flashlight, tablet, laptops, drones, cars, and other devices would not be portable and operational without batteries.
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Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk
This is the first textbook introducing law to computer scientists.
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Here are my top five favorite techniques Stack Overflow uses to make remote work successful on a social level.
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