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Trilateral Talks Enhance Cooperation between U.S., Philippines and Japan
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- Written by Jason Kofonow
Manila, Philippines - Leaders from U.S. 7th Fleet, the Philippine Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force met March 5 aboard the 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) during a scheduled port visit. The trilateral talks aim to grow and strengthen relationships between the three nations.
D3 Innovation Summit Pitch Challenge
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- Written by State Department
Washington, DC - Last Wednesday, the D3 Innovation Summit was held at the U.S. Department of State. A joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the event brought together experts from across the U.S. Government and the private sector to discuss emerging technologies and collaborative, whole-of-government innovation essential to solving global challenges.
Celebrating Women’s History Month at the FTC
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- Written by Lesley Fair - FTC
Washington, DC - The consumer movement, trust-busting, the women’s movement, and the work of the FTC have traveled parallel (and often intersecting) paths. Women’s History Month offers us a chance to consider the contribution women have made to the mission of the FTC and the unprecedented moment in women’s history we’re witnessing at the FTC today.
International Women's Day
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- Written by State Department
Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the world’s women past, present, and future and recognize their many contributions and reflect on what more needs to be done to empower over half of the world’s population.
“Deep Learning”: A Giant Step for Robots
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- Written by Wallace Ravven
Berkeley, California - The prospect of robots that can learn for themselves - through artificial intelligence and adaptive learning — has fascinated scientists and movie-goers alike. Films like Short Circuit, Terminator, Millennial Man, Chappie and Ex Machina flirt with the idea of a machine intelligence beyond the restricted rules of a set program. Pieter Abbeel is on a mission to create architectures to do just that. He is part of a growing cadre of scientists exploring deep machine learning.
Young women ‘feel the Bern,’ older ones back Hillary
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- Written by UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California - In a lively and sometimes heated intergenerational exchange, Berkeley Blog authors are hashing out gender and generational dynamics of the Democratic side of the presidential campaign, and why, in particular, so many young women back Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton.
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