By DAVID E. SANGER
Fears that encrypted communication will prevent agencies from tracking terrorists are overstated, according to a study that included current and former intelligence officials.
Published: January 31, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
The president seeks $4 billion to help states expand in an area he views as critical to young people’s success in a changing job market.
Published: January 30, 2016 at 07:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama said Saturday he’ll ask Congress for billions of dollars to help students learn computer science skills and prepare for jobs in a changing economy.
Published: January 30, 2016 at 01:03AM
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By KATIE BENNER and NICK WINGFIELD
Apple has acquired an augmented reality start-up called Flyby Media and hired the former director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech.
Published: January 29, 2016 at 07:00PM
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BERENBAUM–Alan, 64, a computer scientist, educator and renaissance man, died of an aggressive variety of T-cell lymphoma on January 27 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. He is survived by his devoted partner of 43 years, Eileen M. Lach, and his…
Published: January 28, 2016 at 02:00PM
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By REUTERS
A U.S. congressional probe into the impact of a hack of Juniper Networks Inc software will examine the possibility that it was initially altered at the behest of the National Security Agency, a lawmaker said in an interview on Thursday.
Published: January 28, 2016 at 05:25PM
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The bloom may be off Apple’s iPhone, at least for now. So now the pressure is on the iconic Silicon Valley company to come up with its next big thing.
Published: January 27, 2016 at 11:54AM
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By MOLLY YOUNG
Is productivity a method for freeing up more time to do what we want or a virtue to be pursued for its own sake?
Published: January 30, 2016 at 07:00PM
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A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers has died. Marvin Minsky was 88.
Published: January 26, 2016 at 05:33AM
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Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence pioneer who helped make machines think, leading to computers that understand spoken commands and beat grandmasters at chess, has died at the age of 88, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.
Published: January 26, 2016 at 05:09AM
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Organizers behind Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympic Games moved Monday to erase a major uncertainty: where to house thousands of athletes, and how to pay for it.
Published: January 25, 2016 at 10:15AM
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By GLENN RIFKIN
Professor Minsky laid the foundation for the field by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.
Published: January 25, 2016 at 07:00PM
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East Coast residents clobbered by the weekend blizzard trudged into the workweek Monday amid slippery roads, spotty transit service and mounds of snow that buried cars and blocked sidewalks after some cities got an entire winter’s snow in two days.
Published: January 24, 2016 at 09:32PM
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By CONOR DOUGHERTY
Mr. Page is hardly the first Silicon Valley chief with a case of intellectual wanderlust, but to a rare degree he has made his company a reflection of his personal fascinations.
Published: January 23, 2016 at 07:00PM
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Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have discovered a record-setting prime number that’s so large it would take about 6,000 pages of paper to print, the school announced Thursday.
Published: January 21, 2016 at 01:00PM
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By KENNETH CHANG
A prime number is one that can be divided by only 1 and itself. A PC at a Missouri university has found one with more than 22 million digits.
Published: January 21, 2016 at 07:00PM
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The Islamic State group has acknowledged the death of the masked militant known as “Jihadi John,” who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages, the SITE Intelligence Group reported Tuesday.
Published: January 19, 2016 at 11:35AM
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