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DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

DARPA Wants to Build an AI to Find the Patterns Hidden in Global Chaos

The process of buying something and therefore recognizing it is comparatively simple, but how do you create a schema for recognizing a cold war, or a bear market? That’s what DARPA wants to look into.

Thousands of Academics Spurn Nature’s New Paid-Access Machine Learning Journal

Thousands of Academics Spurn Nature’s New Paid-Access Machine Learning Journal

Nature has just announce plans to create a Machine Intelligence imprint, and researchers in this normally open access field are not happy. Over two thousand have signed a statement saying they won’t publish in it.

Unpaywall Scours the Web for Free Versions of Scientific Papers

Unpaywall Scours the Web for Free Versions of Scientific Papers

The science publishing world is a complex one, but the pendulum is currently swinging away from the paywalled mega-journals of the last decade to a more open model.

Trump to Create White House Office for ‘American Innovation’

Trump to Create White House Office for ‘American Innovation’

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump is going to unveil a new White House agency called the "Office of American Innovation".

Google Confirms Its Acquisition of Data Science Community Kaggle

Google Confirms Its Acquisition of Data Science Community Kaggle

Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions.

ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists

ResearchGate Raises $52.6M for Its Social Research Network for Scientists

As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.

AI's Open Source Model Is Closed, Inadequate, and Outdated

AI's Open Source Model Is Closed, Inadequate, and Outdated

Without an open source model, the world outside the technology sector will continue to struggle in its adoption of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires Science Search Engine Meta

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Acquires Science Search Engine Meta

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $45 billion philanthropy organization is making its first acquisition in order to make it easier for scientists to search, read and tie together more than 26 million science research papers.

We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets

We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets

If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear.

CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access

CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access

Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look.

How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing

How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing

The culture of scientific publishing is complex. Some problems need technical solutions, but others require a cultural change within academia.