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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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Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous
The tradition-bound firefighting profession is poised for an influx of robotic assistants.
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What Does a Crooked Election Look Like?
For voters around the world, including the millions of Americans who will cast ballots in the midterms up to and on November 6, an election is democracy in action—an...
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'Optical Tweezers' and Tools sed for Laser Eye Surgery Snag Physics Nobel
Optical physicists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of...
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Hearing Aids Are Finally Entering the 21st Century
Most people probably associate three things with hearing aids: an elderly demographic, beige plastic construction and high-pitched feedback in public places.
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Are We Ready for the Future of Warfare?
Warfare has always been about exerting political will.
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How to Convert Your Wall into a Giant Touch Screen
The right paint can add pizazz to your walls—and now it can also make them smarter.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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The Milky Way's Speediest Stars Could Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery
Ken Shen was racing against the sun.
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I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory
Most people think about robots as autonomous machines guided by artificial intelligence.
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Could the 'alzheimer's Gene' Finally Become a Drug Target?
Among hundreds of genes that might nudge your risk of Alzheimer's up or down, Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has the strongest effect.
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What We Know About the Climate Change-Hurricane Connection
With Texas just beginning to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the Southeastern U.S. preparing for Hurricane Irma's iminent arrival, people...
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Floating Treasure: Space Law Needs to Catch p with Asteroid Mining
The Outer Space Treaty (OST) turns 50 in October. The foundational 1967 pact establishes space as "the province of all mankind" and forbids the nearly 100 states...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Quantum Computers Compete For 'supremacy'
Scientists have long dreamed of developing quantum computers, machines that rely on arcane laws of physics to perform tasks far beyond the capability of today's...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Hpe Debuts Its Next-Gen Computer--Sans Much-Anticipated Memristors
Three years ago HPE (formerly Hewlett–Packard) laid out its vision for a radical redesign of the computer that would deliver hitherto unimaginable performance in...
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World's First 'cybathlon' Pits High-Tech Prosthetics Against One Another
Bob Radocy finished screwing a light bulb into a lamp perched on the desk ... and the crowd went wild.
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Highlights from the 2016 World Maker Faire
The chill in the air last weekend was a reminder that fall has arrived in New York City.
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Maker Movement Turns Scientists Into Tinkerers
To do science, scientists need money—and usually a lot of it because specialized equipment and tools don’t come cheap.
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on February 17 but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...
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