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Livermore, CA, United States
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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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Your Heartbeat Could Power a Smartphone
In "I Sing the Body Electric," the poet Walt Whitman waxed lyrically about the "action and power" of "beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh."
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The Era of Fake Video Begins
In a dank corner of the internet, it is possible to find actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in all manner of sex acts. Or at least to the world...
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The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World
Chris Urmson led Google's self-driving car team from its early days all the way until the company shed its Google skin and emerged under the Alphabet umbrella as...
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8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...
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Europe's Message to Silicon Valley: Tech Is Not Special
What is Uber? The company's standard answer is that it is a technology company—an app that matches people who want to get somewhere to people who will take them...
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How 'self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback
The trucks that roam the highways of the Australian outback are a lot bigger than the average 18-wheeler.
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...
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You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even ...
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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All the Promises Automakers Have Made About the Future of Cars
Yet another announcement came yesterday: Volvo, the Swedish slash Chinese car company, announced that it will only offer electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019.
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For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
When I saw that Google had introduced a "Classic Papers" section of Google Scholar, its search tool for academic journals, I couldn't help but stroke my chin professorially...
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When AI Can Transcribe Everything
What is the best way to describe Rupert Murdoch having a foam pie thrown at his face?
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics
In October, when malware called Mirai took over poorly secured webcams and DVRs, and used them to disrupt internet access across the United States, I wondered who...
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America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer
It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win.
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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The Return of Seti
For more than five decades, scientists of various stripes have been scanning the stars for technological civilizations, populated by thinking beings like us.
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