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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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Wanna Build a Rocket? Nasa's About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code
Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module.
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Science-Themed Music Videos Boost Scientific Literacy, Study Shows
With the United States putting greater emphasis on STEM education, schools are trying to figure out how to improve student learning in science. University of Washington...
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Robot 101: Learning to Work With Humans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Interactive Robotics Group director Julie Shah is focused on teaching inherently safe robots to work in teams with people,...
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Exomars Scientists Narrow Down Landing Sites
Scientists have picked four potential landing sites for a European rover designed to search for life on Mars.
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Hey, Robot: Which Cat Is Cuter?
One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...
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The Internet Is Killing Most Languages
You might be living through another mass extinction of species—brought on by us humans, who have been changing climate and fragmenting habitats at an increasing...
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Supercomputers Pin Down Primordial Plasma
Successive generations of IBM Blue Gene supercomputer have helped Brookhaven Lab precisely model subatomic interactions.
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Half of New York's Tech Workers Lack College Degrees, Report Says
The fast-growing technology industry in New York is often cited as a magnet for graduates of the nation's top universities.
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Hybrid Vehicles More Fuel Efficient In India, China Than in .S.
Berkeley Lab researchers found that hybrid vehicles use less fuel and mitigate emissions more effectively in India, China than in the United States.
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Carnegie Mellon Robot Invites Humans to Play Mean Game of Scrabble
Victor is obsessed with SCRABBLE.
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10 Years On, Gmail Has Transformed the Web as We Know It
Google loves to unveil a good gag product on April Fool's Day.
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MOOCs Viewed Positively by Employers for Hiring, Training
Employers generally view massive open online courses (MOOCs) positively for recruiting, hiring, and training employees, according to a new study by researchers...
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Computer Maps 21 Distinct Emotional Expressions
Researchers at the Ohio State University have found a way for computers to recognize 21 distinct facial expressions, giving cognitive scientists more tools to study...
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Open Enigma Project Makes Encryption Machines Accessible
Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and...
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In New Case, Supreme Court Revisits the Question of Software Patents
If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it.
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USC Team Develops Research-Based Educational Games
Researchers at the University of Southern California's Game Innovation Lab are developing research-based games for education and social awareness. The games are...
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Adding Coding to the Curriculum
Students worldwide are increasingly familiarizing themselves with coding fundamentals, and proponents say such knowledge aids students' career prospects, their...
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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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Five Ways to Make Sure We Never Lose a Plane Again
For the past few weeks the world's attention has been focussed on the lost Malaysia Airlines plane and its 239 passengers and crew that has apparently crashed in...
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Study Finds Online Gaming Augments Players' Social Lives
New research finds that online social behavior isn't replacing offline social behavior in the gaming community. Instead, online gaming is expanding players' social...
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