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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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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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Understanding Ethereum, Bitcoin's Virtual Cousin
Bitcoin has many cousins and competitors. None have grown more popular than Ethereum, a global computer network with its own virtual currency, called Ether.
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Former Apple Engineers Working on New Eyes For Driverless Cars
Soroush Salehian raised both arms and spun in circles as if celebrating a touchdown.
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As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles
Nissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans.
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Why a 24-Year-Old chipmaker Is One Of tech's Hot Prospects
Engineers at CTA.ai, an imaging-technology start-up in Poland, are trying to popularize a more comfortable alternative to the colonoscopy.
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly nlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence?
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The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed
As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, Geoffrey Everest Hinton thought a lot about the brain. He wanted to better understand how it worked but was frustrated...
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ncle Sam Wants Your Deep Neural Networks
The Department of Homeland Security is turning to data scientists to improve screening techniques at airports.
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future
One persistent criticism of Silicon Valley is that it no longer works on big, world-changing ideas.
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A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Even a decade ago, car manufacturing in China was still a fairly low-tech, labor-intensive endeavor.
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A Trump Dividend For Canada? Maybe in Its A.i. Industry
Amir Moravej, an Iranian computer engineer in Montreal, quietly worked last year on building software to help people navigate the Canadian immigration system.
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
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How Youtube's Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program.
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