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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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Former Super Bowl Champ Empowers Students to Learn Computer Science
Retired NFL defensive tackle Ellis Wyms recently founded Athletes for Computer Science, which deploys athlete ambassadors to teach children in underprivileged districts...
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Scientific Sonnets: Duke Team Wins Competition for Poetry-Generating Algorithm
A team of Duke University researchers won the 2018 PoetiX Literary Creative Turing Test contest for an algorithm that composed the most "human-like" sonnets.
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Film and Television Tell Children Who Can Be Scientists
The portrayal of STEM jobs in U.S. film and television largely reinforces the narrative that scientists are white men, according to a study by the Geena Davis Institute...
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Samsung Is Building Software to Control Your TV with Your Brain
Samsung has created smart TV software you can control with your brainwaves.
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A New Study Finds Potentially Manipulative Ads in Apps for Preschoolers
Apps marketed to children 5 and younger deploy potentially manipulating tactics to deliver ads to children, raising questions about the ethics of child software...
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Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight?
To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.
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How Trump Could Hurt Google
President Donald Trump's Tuesday morning attack on Google for delivering "rigged" search results met with a swift denial from the company, but Trump's threat to...
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The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting...
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A Video Game Can Change the Brain, May Improve Empathy in Middle Schoolers
Kids who played a video game designed to train empathy showed greater connectivity in brain networks related to empathy and perspective taking, a new study shows...
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Harry Potter Coding Kit Teaches Programming with a Wand
The Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit from Kano teaches kids how to program a wand to perform magic spells.
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Robot Drinks Stir Man vs Machine Debate
A robotic arm mixes the cocktails at Ratio in downtown Shanghai, where customers choose how many shots of alcohol they want and the specific combination of liquors...
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How Can Video Games Impact Education?
Video games should be used to promote student motivation, engagement, and ultimately learning, the same as any other effective learning facilitator, says Texas...
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NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its...
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Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life
While many technology experts and scholars have concerns about the social, political, and economic fallout from the spread of digital activities, they also tend...
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Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials
A group of scientists at Berkeley Lab bested two dozen other teams in a months-long, data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated radioactive materials in a virtual...
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Computer Science Students Honored for Humanizing Robots With Humor
Three Stanford computer science students developed a model that can detect humor in spoken language and predict when a conversational agent should respond with...
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Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Dies at 81
Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game...
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Wrigley Field Serves as Classroom for Lane Tech Students
Lane Tech College Prep High School students, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, have installed sensor boxes at Wrigley Field to measure sound levels...
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Disabled Videogamers Get a New Controller
Microsoft Corp. is making a videogame controller designed for people with disabilities, the latest in a growing number of industry efforts to accommodate players...
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Video Games Provide Outlet for Empathy, Dialogue, and Increased Self-Awareness, Designer Says
Doris C. Rusch of DePaul University's Deep Games Lab helped create games such as "Blood Myth," which examines sickle cell anemia; "Zombie Yoga" about anxiety; and...
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