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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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For Popular Khan Academy, a Critical Voice Amid the Adulation
In the past year, education-reform icon Sal Khan has been lauded by Bill Gates as the "teacher to the world" and has been listed among Time magazine's 100 most...
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World-Class Cryptos Wanted: Researchers Seek Help Decoding "Encrypted Warhead"
Researchers have renewed their call for help in cracking an "encrypted warhead" they believe was unleashed by a powerful nation-state and may be poised to search...
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Despite Layoffs, Google's Motorola Strategy Aims at Innovation
Google is shaking things up at its new subsidiary Motorola Mobility, announcing Monday that it will lay off 20 percent of the company's global workforce. Its strategy...
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Nasa Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi on Sci-Fi, Legos, and Becoming a Meme
As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...
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My Life as a Telecommuting Robot
I was strolling down the hall to a meeting on a Wednesday afternoon when I suddenly blacked out, coming to a halt.
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Robot Master
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...
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Russian Tech Giants Aim to Replicate Success Abroad
The gleaming, glass-fronted building towers over its more traditional neighbors in this quiet street in central Moscow. But it is not just Yandex's headquarters...
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...
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His Other Car Is on Mars
On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.
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I've Inherited 200k Lines of Spaghetti Code—what Now?
kmote asks: I am newly employed as the sole "SW Engineer" in a fairly small shop of scientists who have spent the last 10–20 years cobbling together a vast code...
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In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
If Vladimir Putin glances out the Kremlin window at just the right moment, he has a chance of glimpsing the world's best computer programmer in Google's Moscow...
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Brogrammers Wanted
"What is best in life? Is it to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women? Well, that's a pretty good start....
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Women and Tech: Why Don't Girls Want to Be Geeks?
Last month Yahoo appointed a self-styled "super geek" as its chief executive. Nothing unusual there—except this one was a woman and a pregnant one to boot.
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Why Investors Willingly Pay Speed Traders Extra Billions
When high-frequency traders defend themselves against criticism that they're screwing up the stock market by distorting prices or making it more volatile, their...
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Roosevelt Island: New York's New Tech Hub
In a sliver of land in New York City's East River, where a lunatic asylum and smallpox hospital once stood, banners proclaim with unabashed assurance (or chutzpah)...
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Visualization Tool Analyzes Large-Scale Data Sets
A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute has developed a software tool that enables users to perform in-depth analysis of modeling and simulation...
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Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life Itself
For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the .s.?
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...
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Marissa Mayer Is in Over Her Head
One evening in the spring of 1999, Marissa Mayer got a recruiting email from a tiny search company. "I was in a long-distance relationship at the time, so I was...
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Apple Granted 'the Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'
Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons.
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