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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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Searching For Answers in Very Old Dna
As he puts it in the subtitle of his memoir, "Neanderthal Man," Svante Paabo goes in search of lost genomes.
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Google's Sundar Pichai Is the Most Powerful Man in Mobile
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.
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What's Your Science Degree Worth?
Over their lifetimes, graduates with majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can expect an earnings premium of $1.5 million over and...
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Collaborative Learning — For Robots
Algorithm lets independent robots collectively produce a machine-learning model without aggregating data.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Launches Imaging Institute
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched the Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials to accelerate discovery, design, and...
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Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough
Modern computers are not unlike the looms of the industrial revolution: They follow programmed instructions to weave intricate patterns.
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Were the Terracotta Warriors Real Men? 3-D Imaging Tech Will Provide Insight
Scientists are using 3-D imaging to help them determine whether China's world famous terracotta warriors, discovered in the tomb of China's first emperor Qin Shi...
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Researcher Wants to Make Google Glass Safer For Drivers
With his Google Glass in place over his right eye, Jibo He is weaving in and out of traffic. He takes his focus off the road and peeks at the Glass screen to...
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Introducing the Vacuum Transistor: A Device Made of Nothing
In September 1976, in the midst of the Cold War, Victor Ivanovich Belenko, a disgruntled Soviet pilot, veered off course from a training flight over Siberia in...
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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments se to Hijack Phones
Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement...
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Brain Wave Hits California
As US science agencies firm up plans for a national ten-year neuroscience initiative, California is launching an ambitious project of its own.
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Three Questions with Amazon's Technology Chief, Werner Vogels
In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, this has grown from a side project that took advantage of the...
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Wearable Computing Gloves Can Teach Braille, Even if You're Not Paying Attention
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers used a technology-enhanced glove to help people learn how to read and write Braille, even if they weren't paying attention...
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A Charging Solution For Delivery Drones?
CSAIL research suggests that unmanned aerial vehicles can recharge their batteries by perching on power lines.
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nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
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Super-Stretchable Yarn Is Made of Graphene
Researchers at Penn State and Shinshu University in Japan have developed a simple, scalable method of making graphene oxide fibers that are strong, stretchable...
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Robot Can Be Programmed By Casually Talking to It
Ashutosh Saxena of Cornell University is teaching robots to understand and respond to instructions in natural language from various speakers.
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Bletchley Park: No Longer the World's Best Kept Secret
Codebreakers credited with shortening World War Two worked in structures built to last only a few years.
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Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch
The performance of the world's fastest computers has been steadily growing for two decades, but the latest tally of their collective performance shows slowing progress...
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