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Dubai-based journalist and blogger Benedetta Pasero says she’s a Google information finder, it’s been a life saver for her — but she’s NOT a cyberchondriac.

G. Sayeed Choudhury will join Carnegie Mellon University Libraries in a newly created role to raise awareness of and stimulate collaboration among open-source projects.

A new study shows working in the metaverse sucks, surprising no one.

A new vault for music could protect one of our greatest art forms for future generations. Nothing is forever. By Microsoft's estimation, hard drives protect data for five years before they can go bad. Tape lasts about a decade, while CDs and DVDs...

New text classification API for Microsoft’s open source machine learning framework streamlines model training by using data to fine-tune an existing model.

A team of researchers put test subjects through a 40-hour work week in VR, with terrible but "expected" results.

Sun Jian, the 45-year-old chief scientist of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Megvii Technology, died on Tuesday (June 14) of a sudden illness, which the company did not specify. “Dr Sun Jian has dedicated his whole life to scientific research. With his unfortunate passing, Megvii has lost a leader in the exploration of and innovation in the AI technology field,”...

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2022 is awarded in equal shares to mathematicians Noga Alon of Princeton University and Ehud Hrushovski of Oxford, "for their remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences." Awarded by the Hong Kong-based Shaw Foundation, the Shaw Prize honors recent breakthroughs by researchers in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and life science and med...

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of the ML.NET Text Classification API, an API intended to make it easier to train custom text classification models using the open source ML.NET machine learning framework. Introduced June 14, the ML.NET Text Classification API uses “state-of-the-art” deep learning techniques, Microsoft said. ML.NET allows developers to integrate custom machine learning

Northwestern CS welcomes new faculty members Andrew Crotty, Sam Kriegman, and Miklos Racz.