How often do we hear about how terrifying progress in the Artificial Intelligence community is becoming? Well this Halloween such comments come with some justification. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have ...
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The U.S. Senate passed a defense bill with language requiring the Pentagon to buy US-made athletic shoes for military recruits. ADVERTISEMENT The legislation is expected to benefit Boston-based New Balance, which has three factories in ...
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US president Barrack Obama-led task force has drafted a 40-page report planning to curb black-market fishing and mislabelling of seafood, which costs the US and the world billions of dollars of fishing revenue. The US stands second after ...
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A selection of health policy stories from Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota. Providence Journal: Chafee's $43-Million Cut In Medicaid Program Touches Many Sectors Of Health Care ...
Several justices expressed skepticism about the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that prohibits protesters within a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinic entrances. Chief Justice John Roberts is likely to cast the deciding ...
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In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able to track ...
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The bankrupt Boston-area pharmacy that allegedly made tainted steroid injections which sickened hundreds and killed 64 will compensate victims, officials say. Paul D. Moore, the bankruptcy trustee involved in the negotiations with the ...
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Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds, who last month acknowledged authorizing a secret search of email belonging to several residential deans at the university, will step down from her position July 1. According to the Harvard Gazette, ...
As part of an ongoing restructuring, EMC reported today that it will lay off more than 1,000 employees worldwide. The company reported in its latest 10-Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that in the first quarter of ...
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A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday has reportedly been identified, according to numerous news agencies. CNN was the first to report that a suspect had been identified in the bombing, which killed three people and left more ...
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Jordan's Furniture has enlisted Pedro Martinez of the Boston Red Sox as a spokesman and he's helping the retailer launch its latest sports-related promotion, the Boston Globe reports. For any furniture Jordan's customers buy from now ...
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Harvard University President Drew Faust has ordered a comprehensive review of the university's email privacy polices amid disclosuresthat a secret search of some deans' email accounts by administrators was broader than originally ...
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Harvard University officials on Monday scrambled to contain the fallout from a damaging report in The Boston Globe over the weekend disclosing how administrators secretly accessed email accounts belonging to 16 resident deans at the ...
After last night's presidential debate, the possible fate of Big Bird is now known. But the rival candidates gave no insight into the possible fate of exascale systems, the next generation of supercomputers. In the 90-minute debate ...
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4 June 2012 Boston Globe lists Skyworks in Globe 100 for fourth consecutive year,ranking 8th again Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors)has been named to the ...
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