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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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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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A Data-Crunching Prize to Cut Flight Delays
A team from Singapore is taking home a $100,000 prize for developing an algorithm that could help airlines better predict flight arrival times and reduce passenger...
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Qualcomm Wants to Be Famous
Qualcomm sells chips that go inside TVs, BMW dashboards, game consoles, and, most important, one-third of smartphones sold.
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In the Developing World, Moocs Start to Get Real
As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their potential to democratize higher...
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Mobile Computing Is Just Getting Started
Mobile computers are spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history.
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Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.
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The Natural Experimenter
Josh Angrist is an acclaimed experimentalist who does not work in a lab.
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The Underdog Operating Systems Set to Shake Up the Smartphone Scene
The next time you go shopping for a smartphone, you might see some unfamiliar software on the screens lining store shelves.
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How Technology Has Restored the Soul of Politics
In 1979, I was an aeronautical-engineering major at San Jose State University, sneaking time in the laser lab to make holograms or running over to the computer...
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The Man Looking to Turn Samsung Into a Silicon Valley Trendsetter
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.
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The Woman Charged With Making Windows 8 Succeed
As the head of Windows product development at Microsoft, Julie Larson-Green is responsible for a piece of software used by some 1.3 billion people worldwide.
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By Hiring Kurzweil, Google Just Killed the Singularity
Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering. Has the world’s brainiest tech company"rapture...
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Can Apple Still Innovate on a Shoestring?
In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...
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With Computerized Cars Ahead, Gm Puts It Outsourcing in the Rearview Mirror
For a dramatic sign of the strategy reversal under way at General Motors as it moves on from its 2009 bankruptcy, look no further than the IT department.
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Genome Hunters Go After Martian Dna
Two high-profile entrepreneurs say they want to put a DNA sequencing machine on the surface of Mars in a bid to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life.
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Automate or Perish
In Automate This, a book due out next month, author and entrepreneur Christopher Steiner tells the story of stockbroker Thomas Peterffy, the creator of the first...
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Microsoft's New Lab Hunts For Value in User Data
A new research lab that opens in New York today brings together researchers studying such questions as how to identify the most influential users of a social network...
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Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.
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The Comeback of Xerox Parc
Last month, a small Norwegian company called Thinfilm Electronics and PARC, the storied Silicon Valley research lab, jointly showed off a technological first—a...
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'big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...
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