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Bay Area universities, MIT, Harvard top startup ranking for grads who raise venture capital

by Taylor Soper on August 31, 2018August 31, 2018 at 7:57 amComment

Stanford, Berkeley, and MIT continue to pump out more entrepreneurs than any other universities across the U.S. Seattle-based investment database site PitchBook on Friday released its annual report on the… Read More

Microsoft and Alibaba AI programs beat humans in Stanford reading comprehension test for 1st time

by Nat Levy on January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 at 3:44 pm 2 Comments

Machines can already outplay us in chess, poker and other games, and now they are becoming better readers as well. AI programs from both Microsoft and Alibaba outperformed humans earlier… Read More

Stanford and Berkeley top new startup ranking, showing split between Seattle and Bay Area tech

by Monica Nickelsburg on September 1, 2017September 1, 2017 at 10:32 am 2 Comments

Bay Area universities top Pitchbook’s new annual report on the schools producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs. Seattle’s University of Washington, which has topped other rankings, is number 23 on this… Read More

Teens are startlingly bad at deciphering fake news, Stanford study finds

by Monica Nickelsburg on November 22, 2016November 22, 2016 at 11:51 am 3 Comments

In the crucial final months of the election, Facebook engagement with bogus news stories outpaced legitimate news, according to BuzzFeed’s analysis. It’s an alarming trend, particularly when you look to the… Read More

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Pokémon Go could help you live longer, Microsoft study finds

by Monica Nickelsburg on October 24, 2016October 24, 2016 at 9:02 am 2 Comments

True to its name, Pokémon Go got Americans moving after a launch almost as explosive as a Blastoise bursting out of its poke ball. A new study from Microsoft Research and… Read More

This ‘Star Trek’-like ‘tricorder’ could be the go-to device for detecting cancer soon

by Molly Brown on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 at 11:30 amComment

A visit to the doctor may very well start to resemble a trip to the USS Enterprise‘s medical bay if a group of Stanford engineers’ new device has anything to do… Read More

University of Washington ranks No. 4 among the world’s most innovative universities

by Molly Brown on September 16, 2015September 16, 2015 at 11:04 am 3 Comments

Stanford. MIT. Harvard. The top three most innovative universities are predictable enough, but there’s a nice surprise at No. 4 — the University of Washington. Reuters posted its ranking of the… Read More

Forget self-driving cars, Toyota investing $50M in A.I. to develop ‘intelligent’ vehicles

by Molly Brown on September 4, 2015September 4, 2015 at 11:16 am 3 Comments

Today, Toyota announced a $50 million, five-year collaboration with Stanford and MIT to develop “intelligent” cars. As the New York Times reports, it’s an “ambitious” move to get beyond the idea… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg, a Microsoft engineer? Could have happened without Facebook

by Taylor Soper on October 22, 2012October 22, 2012 at 2:57 pmComment

Meet Mark Zuckerberg, an impressive and talented Microsoft engineer. That might have been a truthful sentence had Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, not gone off and revolutionized the social networking world. The… Read More

Dear Stanford: Now that your NYC campus isn’t happening, how about Seattle?

by John Cook on January 3, 2012January 3, 2012 at 3:52 pm 12 Comments

Dear Stanford, First, we want to express our deepest sympathies about the loss in the Fiesta Bowl last night. It was a heartbreaking overtime defeat, and we’d like you to… Read More

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