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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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ber Escapes Criminal Charges for 2018 Self-Driving Death in Arizona
A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...
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Etch a Sketch Lives On in Browser-Based Chrome Labs Project
Everyone who remembers the Etch A Sketch slabs of yesteryear remembers how difficult it was to translate your vision onto its "magic screen," and how proud youWeb...
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More Than an Auto-Pilot, AI Charts Its Course in Aviation
Ask anyone what they think of when the words "artificial intelligence" and aviation are combined, and it's likely the first things they'll mention are drones.
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AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions that Will Work
Chemistry is a sort of applied physics, with the behavior of electrons and their orbitals dictating a set of rules for which reactions can take place and what products...
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Why a 40-Year-Old SCOTS Ruling Against Software Patents Still Matters Today
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
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Non-Lethal Weapon: DOD Seeks to se Lasers to Create Shouting Will-O-the-Wisp
The Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Development Program (JNLWD) is closing in on a directed energy weapon that can literally tell people to go...
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Microsoft's 'ink to Code' Turns Drawings Into ser Interfaces
Sketching out rough ideas—traditionally on the back of a napkin in the US, backs of envelopes being preferred in the UK—is a common and important part of the design...
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License Expired: The Ars Technica 2018 Deathwatch
Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...
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Stealth Turns 40: Looking Back at the First Flight of Have Blue
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
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Microsoft's Q# Quantum Programming Language Out Now in Preview
Microsoft launched a preview version of a new programming language for quantum computing called Q#. The industry giant also launched a quantum simulator that developers...
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Australian Man ses Snack Bags as Faraday Cage to Block Tracking By Employer
A 60-year-old electrician in Perth, Western Australia had his termination upheld by a labor grievance commission when it was determined he had been abusing his...
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Survey of Bug Bounty Hunters Shows Who Pans For Pwns
Asking the crowd for help in fixing security problems is going mainstream.
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Members of Congress Want You to Hack the S Election Voting System
This summer, DefCon's "Voting Machine Hacking Village" turned up a host of US election vulnerabilities (PDF). Now, imagine a more mainstream national hacking event...
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Tim Cook Says the Tech 'doesn't Exist' For Quality Ar Glasses Yet
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes augmented reality's rise will be as "dramatic" as that of the App Store, but he doesn't believe AR glasses or similar wearables arewith...
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Digital Transformation: How Machine Learning Could Help Change Business
Machine learning (ML) based data analytics is rewriting the rules for how enterprises handle data.
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Wanted: Weaponized Exploits that Hack Phones. Will Pay Top Dollar
In a sign of the soaring demand for zeroday attacks that target software that's becoming increasingly secure, a market-leading broker is offering serious cash for...
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There's a Debate Raging in Science About What Should Count as 'significant'
Psychology and many related fields are in the midst of what can be viewed as a coming-of-age crisis.
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...
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Nvidia and Remedy se Neural Networks For Eerily Good Facial Animation
Remedy, the developer behind the likes of Alan Wake and Quantum Break, has teamed up with GPU-maker Nvidia to streamline one of the more costly parts of modern...
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