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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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The Agency
Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got...
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Google Wants to Turn Your Clothes Into a Computer
If you thought it was only a matter of time before Google tried to turn your pants into a computer, well, guess what, you were right.
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Behind the Downfall at Blackberry
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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'rise of the Robots' and 'shadow Work'
In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...
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40 Busy Years Later, a Microsoft Founder Considers His Creation
Looking at Microsoft’s sprawling product line and 118,000 or so employees, it’s easy to forget that the company started with one modest product made by two ambitious...
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Preparing For Warfare in Cyberspace
The Pentagon’s new 33-page cybersecurity strategy is an important evolution in how America proposes to address a top national security threat. It is intended to...
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Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game
Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the 'hard' Out of Hardware
In a converted pipe organ factory in the city’s Mission District, Saul Griffith works on products that are smarter, cheaper and, above all, squiggly.
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If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?
Armies of the finest minds in computer science have dedicated themselves to improving the odds of making a sale.
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Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's neasy Glare
Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams in her online courses this semester, her instructors sent emails directing students...
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Jay Edelson, the Class-Action Lawyer Who May Be Tech's Least Friended Man
When technology executives imagine the boogeyman, they see a baby-face guy in wire-rim glasses. His name is Jay Edelson.
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Planes Without Pilots
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...
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The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.
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If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
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Here's What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official
Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened?
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.
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Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesdayin the journal Nature that they had made a significant advance that...
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