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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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Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar
U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...
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What Role Should Silicon Valley Play in Fighting Terrorism?
On Friday, January 8, several high-level officials from the Obama administration—including the attorney general, the White House chief of staff, and the directors...
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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.
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Election Tech Roundup: Is 2016 the Year of Psychological Profiling?
The 2008 presidential election heralded wide use of online social media.
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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In Virtual Reality, Exercise Bike Becomes a Race Car
A new stationary bike from Boston startup VirZoom requires an unusual accessory while you’re pedaling: a virtual-reality headset, so you can turn your workout into...
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...
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A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...
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The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home
The world's most successful home robot, the Roomba, is getting some new skills. The robotic vacuum cleaner is gaining a camera and image-processing software that...
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The Coming Wave of Bionic Hearing Gadgets
In a windowless office on a tiny San Francisco side street, Noah Kraft is making me hear things in a way I’ve never heard them before.
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Lessons from the Digital Classroom
In four small schools scattered across San Francisco, a data experiment is under way.
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Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits
If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...
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Point, Click, and Fire in Virtual Reality—with Just Your Eyes
It's testament to the speed at which the current crop of virtual-reality headsets are evolving that newcomer Fove is able to make its competitors seem, if not outdated...
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Firefox Maker Battles to Save the Internet—and Itself
In Silicon Valley, most pioneers pursue big ideas and giant personal fortunes with equal zeal. Then there’s Mozilla, an innovation dynamo that refuses to get rich...
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Machine Dreams
There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Ibm Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer's Controversial Brain Algorithms
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...
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Toolkits For the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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Virtual Creatures in a Box, Controlled By You
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.
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