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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 Friendship That Made Google Huge
One day in March of 2000, six of Google's best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room.
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In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father.
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After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside
The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language...
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Listening to James Hansen on Climate Change, Thirty Years Ago and Now
On June 23, 1988—a blisteringly hot day in Washington, D.C.—James Hansen told a Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our...
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The G.D.P.R., Europe's New Privacy Law, and the Future of the Global Data Economy
They're curious messengers, these ants in your in-box.
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The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back
One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia...
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Spying on Whales to Save Them
One foggy morning last April, a dead humpback whale washed up on New York's Rockaway Beach.
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China's Selfie Obsession
HoneyCC likes to say that she scarcely remembers the last time someone called her by her given name, Lin Chuchu.
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At Berkeley, a New Generation of 'ethical Hackers' Learns to Wage Cyberwar
"Whenever I teach a security class, it happens that there is something going on in the news cycle that ties into it," Doug Tygar, a computer-science professor at...
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1977, the first thing he did was get a job building houses.
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Remembering Lotfi Zadeh, the Inventor of Fuzzy Logic
One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents' New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled.
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How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made
We inhabit a small planet orbiting a medium-sized star about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Milky Way galaxy—around where Track 2 on an LP record...
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D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
Not much about Makoto Koike's adult life suggests that he would be a farmer.
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...
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The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise
The British writer Charles Lamb was no stranger to workplace-induced despair.
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Analytics Reach the Rec League
On a recent rainy night, about two dozen spectators gathered at an Equinox Sports Club on the Upper West Side to watch a basketball game: the X-Men vs. Almost Famous...
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The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
Henry Soto worked for Microsoft’s online-safety team, in Seattle, for eight years.
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With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever
Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in 2007.
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The Hype, and Hope, of Artificial Intelligence
Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks.
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Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of Theory
I used to be an astronaut, a spacewalker on the International Space Station.12
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