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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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It's a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technology
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media.
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How Does a Design Museum Add Software to Its Collection? There's an App For That.
The design of software underpins almost every facet of the way we live now, from the interactive bus timetable on your smartphone to the Excel spreadsheet you use...
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Maybe Everybody Should Not Learn to Code
In the past few years, programming has gone mainstream, as celebrities from Chris Bosh to President Obama jump on the "everyone should learn to code" bandwagon.
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The Mooc That Roared
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...
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I Would Have Hired Edward Snowden
I don't know Edward Snowden, but I know his kind.
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Government Plan to Build 'back Doors' For Online Surveillance Could Create Dangerous Vulnerabilities
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...
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What Is the Syrian Electronic Army Trying to Accomplish, Anyway?
In June 2011, just a few short months after protests first erupted in Syria, the country's president, Bashar Al-Assad, made a speech in which he thanked a group...
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Superhero or Supervillain?
From invisibility to superhuman strength to telekinesis, a wave of emerging technologies promise to give people powers once reserved for comic-book characters.
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Can Your Boss Read Your Email?
Harvard faculty members responded with shock after the Boston Globe revealed that theuniversity’s administration had searched 16 faculty deans’ email accounts to...
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Letter 'to a Future Woman in Tech' Hopes For Long Ladies' Room Lines at Conferences
Stacey Mulcahy, who is currently a lead developer at the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, has been in the tech industry since 2001.
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The Threat of Silence
For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention.
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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How Google's Jeff Dean Became the Chuck Norris of the Internet
"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."—Jeff Dean Facts
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How Google Became Such a Great Place to Work
A few years ago, Google's human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company.
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Cyberwar's Gray Market
Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated...
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Michael Bloomberg Wants to Do Something Cool with New York's Phone Booths
Just 15 years ago, New York City had 35,000 phone booths. Thanks to cell phones it now has just 11,000, most of which serve little purpose for anyone but Clark...
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Company Plans 'revolutionary' Eavesdropping Technology to Help Governments Monitor Internet Chats
According to law enforcement agencies, the rising popularity of Internet chat services like Skype has made it difficult to eavesdrop on suspects' communications...
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Can the App Economy Cure Dismal Job Numbers?
"This is shameless, really," said Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., on Wednesday, as she held out her iPad, showing high-resolution photo of her infant grandson to...
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The New Artisan Economy
The recovery from the Great Recession of 2007-09 has been so anemic that the average American would probably be surprised to hear that the recession has officially...
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Windows Without Windows
Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...
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