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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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Why It's So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System
Geology is not a field known for speed.
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Peek Into the Weird and Wonderful Age of AI (yes, There's a Chatbot)
On March 23, Microsoft revealed Tay, a Twitter bot trained to chat like a millennial. It worked … too well.
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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever
Minutes before the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics trot onto the field during an overcast May afternoon, A's bullpen coach Scott Emerson strides along the...
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You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That's Ludicrous
In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions...
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show
On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...
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The President's Nsa Advisory Board Finally Gets a Tech Expert
It's taken more than a decade, but a critical oversight board tasked with advising the president on the privacy and civil liberties implications of the NSA's surveillance...
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AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...
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Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It
President Barack Obama spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to "fix our politics." His first solution? Stop gerrymandering...
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Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
Look—We have no idea how this election will turn out.
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GM Asks Friendly Hackers to Report Its Cars' Security Flaws
As automotive cybersecurity has become an increasingly heated concern, security researchers and auto giants have been locked in an uneasy standoff.
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Drones Aren't Just Toys Anymore
When you think of a certain kind of drone—the quadcopter, not those UAVs running missions in Waziristan—you might picture overeager dads abandoning their Christmas...
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How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation
The young programmer had an idea, and everyone thought it was nuts.
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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan
There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane....
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Signal, the Snowden-Approved Crypto App, Comes to Android
Since it first appeared in Apple's App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and...
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The Gop Has a Tech Talent Problem It Might Not Solve
Scott Walker's withdrawal from the 2016 presidential race last month was tough on staffers like Matt Oczkowski—as it turns out, tougher than he thought.
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You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty...
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon.
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Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision
A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...
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When Security Experts Gather to Talk Consensus, Chaos Ensues
Security researchers and vendors have long been locked in a debate over how to disclose security vulnerabilities, and there's little on which the two sides agree...
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