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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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The football players strutted down a 40-yard strip of synthetic turf, yelling, jumping and flailing their arms to whip the fans into a frenzy.
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Tech's Diversity Problem Is Apparent as Early as High School
In three states, not a single girl took the Advanced Placement exam in computer science last year. In eight states, no Hispanic students took it. And in 11 states...
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N.s.a. Choice Is Navy Expert on Cyberwar
In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new...
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Ann Cavoukian is the information and privacy commissioner in Ontario, Canada, and a longtime advocate of default online confidentiality.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.
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Big Data's Little Brother
David Soloff is recruiting an army of "hyperdata" collectors.
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They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.
At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for...
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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The mbilical Link of Man to Robot
Atlas doesn't shrug. But he teeters, loses his grip, stutters, and staggers.
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Dina Katabi
Syrian-born Dina Katabi is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was awarded a MacArthur last...
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Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow...
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N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
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Bit By Bit, Virtual Reality Heads For the Holodeck
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.
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Mugged By a Mug Shot Online
In March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf...
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Swarm of Rivals Seeking Share of Social Media Pie
Twitter, poised to make its splashy entrance on Wall Street, has helped define modern social networking.
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Internet Pioneer Realnetworks Seeks Revival
When a ground-breaking product called RealPlayer was released in its earliest form in 1995, Steven P. Jobs had yet to return to Apple, Google's future foundersjust...
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Give Yourself 5 Stars? Online, It Might Cost You
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.
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