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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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China Launches Moon Rover Mission
China's latest display of ambition in space involves sending a Jade Rabbit roaming across the Bay of Rainbows.
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Women Gain in Some STEM Fields, but Not Computer Science
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to get more women interested in computer science.
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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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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...
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I Am Woman, Watch Me Hack
The ranks of women in computer science are low and dwindling, and many industry observers blame the field's gender disparity on a public image problem.
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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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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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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.s. Adults Fare Poorly in a Study of Skills
U.S. adults are below average compared to adults in other developed countries in the mathematical and technical skills needed for jobs in the current economy, according...
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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...
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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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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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Does Digital Age Overcomplicate Design?
There is a scene in the television series "Boss" in which the mayor of Chicago, played by Kelsey Grammer, is discovered by his wife washing bed sheets by hand at...
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Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World, but Struggles For Status
Tien Wu, chief operating officer of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, has a problem: the brightest young people in Taiwan do not want to work in the island’s...
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The Boy Genius of lan Bator
Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
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