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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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S Ready to 'hand Over' the Internet's Naming System
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's...
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Dangers of Pokémon Go Similar to Texting, Professor Says
A researcher says players of Pokemon Go face the same cognitive problematic distractions as texting.
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Why Facebook Is Really Blocking the Ad Blockers
Ads can seem like the bane of the Internet.
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Israeli Army Prepares Augmented Reality For Battlefield Duty
If Pokemon Go achieved one thing, it was showing the world that augmented reality technologies are ready for the mainstream.
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The Next Must-Have Smartphone Feature
Smartphones can tell you when to depart for the airport to make your flight, provide voice-guided directions on the way there, and route around traffic jams.
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The Brave New World of Robots and Lost Jobs
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Why Save a Computer Virus?
On average, 82,000 new malware threats are created each day.
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Chinese Testing Virtual Reality Classrooms and Computer-Based Adaptive Teaching
NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video-game maker, is an unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.
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Don't Baby These Kid Hackers
Emmett Brewer is no taller than the lectern on the stage, so he stands to the side of it to deliver his presentation. He's got a Dennis the Menace hairdo and he's...
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Are Performance-Monitoring Wearables an Affront to Workers' Rights?
At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods.
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Latest to Quit Google's Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
A roboticist and crucial member of the team that created Google's self-driving car is leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures by important technologists...
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Remembering a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking
The field of educational technology is mourning a visionary whose work was considered 50 years ahead of its time.
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This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America's 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services.
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Apple's New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data
Ten years ago, researchers at Microsoft introduced a breakthrough approach to protecting privacy in the age of big data. Later this year their idea, known as differential...
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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Apple Offers Big Cash Rewards For Help Finding Security Bugs
Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that...
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How You Might Soon Be Able to 'Play' With the Cats in Cat Videos
Researchers at MIT say they've found a way for viewers to 'touch' objects that appear on a screen.
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