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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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AI Content Detectors Discriminate Against Non-Native English Speakers
Computer programs used to detect essays, job applications, and other work generated by artificial intelligence can discriminate against people who are non-native...
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Female Students Outnumber Males in A-Level Science Entries
Efforts to improve girls' enrollment in STEM subjects show signs of bearing fruit.
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Google at 20: How Two 'Obnoxious' Students Changed the Internet
In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering...
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Our Concerns About the Arrest of Abbas Edalat in Iran
129 experts in computer science, mathematics, and machine learning call for the release of their colleague, the Imperial College London professor who was arrested...
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British-Iranian Computer Scientist Detained in Iran, British Officials Say
Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College London and a political activist, has been arrested by Iran's Revolutionary Guards...
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'we Can't Compete': Why niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists
Computer scientists are being lured from academia by a handful of companies whose offers that are hard to turn down.
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Robots Could Destabilise World Through War and nemployment, Says n
The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a headquarters in The Hague to monitor developments in artificial intelligence...
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Tech's Push to Teach Coding Isn't About Kids' Success – It's About Cutting Wages
The campaign for code education isn't about giving the next generation a shot at earning the salary of a Facebook engineer. It's about ensuring those salaries no...
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End of the Checkout Line: The Looming Crisis For American Cashiers
The day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders took out a full page advertisement in the Memphis Press-Scimitar...
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Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs, and We're Not Ready For It
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...
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Theory Challenging Einstein's View on Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested
The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World nemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...
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16 Trends That Will Define the Future of Video Games
Hundreds of game developers, publishers and analysts recently descended on Brighton for the annual Develop conference.
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British Army Creates Team of Facebook Warriors
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...
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Stop Complaining About the Facebook Study. It's a Golden Age For Research
Several years ago, my student and I studied anonymous email server data from 40,000 students, faculty and staff at a large university.
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Computer Coding More in Demand Than Languages, Survey Shows
Software programming should take priority over modern languages in British schools, according to a Code.org survey of more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom...
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Google: 'where Will Future Quantum Computer Scientists Come From? Our Best Guess: Minecraft'
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.
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Bill For Compulsory Science Fiction in West Virginia Schools
A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed by a politician in West Virginia in order to "stimulate interest in...
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Disney Turns Away from Hand-Drawn Animation
Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans...
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Detroit: After Decades of rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope
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