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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Robots Won't Kill the Workforce. They'll Save the Global Economy.
The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about...
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Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.
Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...
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Facebook Has Repeatedly Trended Fake News Since Firing Its Human Editors
The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we’d check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour, and record which topics were trending...
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The Brave New World of Robots and Lost Jobs
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...
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Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic
Companies around the globe are launching an increasing number of satellites, crowding Earth's orbit in an effort to satisfy the ravenous on-demand desire for more...
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Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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The Real Reason America Controls Its Nukes with Ancient Floppy Disks
America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.
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Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.
Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.
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Lots of Coders Are Self-Taught, According to Developer Survey
More computer programmers are self-taught rather than graduates of coding "boot camps" or industry certification programs run by big tech companies, according to...
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.
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The Cloud Wars Are Seriously Heating p
Most consumers may not realize it, but there's a furious battle playing out right behind the products they use every day.
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.
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Inside the Economics of Hacking
Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.
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The World's Youngest Synthetic Biologists Show that the Future of Innovation Is in the Genes
At the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree this weekend in Boston—an event that its founder Randy Rettberg refers to as "the World Cup of science"—over 250 student-led...
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The Auto and Tech Worlds Are Fighting For the Best Minds in Race For Self-Driving Cars
Google had all of Silicon Valley to choose from when deciding on a leader for its ambitious self-driving car division.
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Inside the Surprisingly High-Stakes Quest to Design a Computer Program That 'gets' Sarcasm Online
A computer program that can reliably detect sarcasm is a formidable challenge, a key hurdle being that most cues signaling sarcasm are non-textual.
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6 Reasons Why We're nderhyping the Internet of Things
Just when you thought the Internet of Things couldn't possibly live up to its hype, along comes a blockbuster, 142-page report from McKinsey Global Institute ("The...
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Google Didn't Lead the Self-Driving Vehicle Revolution. John Deere Did.
Google has received tons of gushy press for its bubble-shaped self-driving car, though it's still years from the showroom floor.
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