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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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Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics
Don't be surprised if Stephen Wolfram, the renowned complexity theorist, software company CEO, and night owl, wants to schedule a work call with you at 9 p.m. In...
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How Today's Sensors Could Make Tomorrow's Cars Safer
Driverless cars haven’t hit the roads yet, but computers are already helping to slow down or stop a car in situations when a crash is imminent.
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Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled By Your Brain
One day, we may be able to check email or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper.
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A Simple Way to Turn Any Lcd Into a Touch Screen
Electromagnetic interference can screw up cell phone and radio reception. But it may also be the key to cheaply transforming regular LCD screens into touch- and...
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How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
Wireless operators have access to an unprecedented volume of information about users' real-world activities, but for years these massive data troves were put to...
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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 Browser Wars Go Mobile
When surfing the Web on a smartphone, most of us stick with the browser that came with our handset.
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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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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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In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
If Vladimir Putin glances out the Kremlin window at just the right moment, he has a chance of glimpsing the world's best computer programmer in Google's Moscow...
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