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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Research Shows Cooperative Video Game Play Elicits Pro-Social Behavior
Research shows that playing video games cooperatively with others can make players think helpful behaviors are valuable and commonplace.
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Nasa Announces Journey to Mars Challenge, Seeks Public Input on Establishing Sustained Human Presence on Red Planet
What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million...
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First Stop Robot Road Race, Next Stop Nasa
More than 200 runners and 25 robots competing in a human 5-kilometer run and robot 100-meter dash on April 12 in West Cambridge, Mass.
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Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015
PayScale crunched the numbers for Fortune and identified the grad degrees that lead to lucrative careers—and those that lead to high stress and low pay.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
As a senior at the University of Minnesota, Jeff Dean built an artificial brain. Kinda.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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How Self-Driving Tractor-Trailers May Reinvent What It Means to Be a Truck Driver
Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of autonomous...
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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40 Busy Years Later, a Microsoft Founder Considers His Creation
Looking at Microsoft’s sprawling product line and 118,000 or so employees, it’s easy to forget that the company started with one modest product made by two ambitious...
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Who Earns a Doctorate? More Women, More Foreigners, More Minorities
The number of research doctorate degrees awarded by U.S. institutions in 2013 grew by 3.5 percent over the previous year, according to a new report from the National...
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Number of People with Access to U.s. Classified Data Down 12% in One Year
The U.S. government is tightening the reins on the number of employees and contractors with access to classified information.
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Foxconn's Robot Army Yet to Prove Match For Humans
Four years ago, Foxconn founder Terry Gou envisaged an army of one million robots would now be working the assembly lines at the world's biggest contract electronics...
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To Invent the Future, You Must nderstand the Past
"You can't really understand what is going on now without understanding what came before."
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Quantum Computers Will Make Your Laptop Look Like an Abacus
The race to make the first quantum computer is becoming as important as the race 75 years ago to get the first nuke. It could change the balance of power in politics...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Engaging Native Alaskan Students in Stem
The ANSEP program leverages state and federal dollars to help Native Alaskan students succeed in college math and science courses in an effort to increase their...
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Internet Is New Frontier For Collecting Data on the Mind, Researcher Says
Psychologists are looking to use the Internet to conduct research and collect information about the mind.
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