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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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Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry
Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...
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Detroit's Grand Plan to Lead the Self-Driving Revolution
The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...
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Why It's So Darn Hard to Build a Fast Quake Warning System
Geology is not a field known for speed.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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Peek Into the Weird and Wonderful Age of AI (yes, There's a Chatbot)
On March 23, Microsoft revealed Tay, a Twitter bot trained to chat like a millennial. It worked … too well.
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Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers
Donald Trump has proven a lot of people wrong, and not just because a year ago today none of us—perhaps not even Trump—would have imagined in our wildest fever...
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Insanely Detailed 3-D Globe of the Moon Shows Every Dimple
Four years ago, fresh out of graduate school at the Royal College of Art in London, Oscar Lhermitte stumbled across some high-resolution images of the moon.
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The Future of Wildlife Conservation Is … an Electronic Vulture Egg
The vultures of Britain's International Centre for Birds of Prey don't know it, but they're dupes.
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show
On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...
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AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...
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Drones Aren't Just Toys Anymore
When you think of a certain kind of drone—the quadcopter, not those UAVs running missions in Waziristan—you might picture overeager dads abandoning their Christmas...
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How a Nation of Tech Copycats Transformed Into a Hub for Innovation
The young programmer had an idea, and everyone thought it was nuts.
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SynTouch Is Giving Robots the Ability to Feel Textures Like Humans Do
There's just nothing like holding a new product in your hands.
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Hands-On With Microsoft's Hololens, One Year Later
One year after showing off HoloLens, Microsoft's augmented reality rig remains very much a work in progress.
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The Football Mouthguards of Tomorrow Will Detect Dehydration and Head Injuries
The humble mouthguard—that C-shaped piece of plastic that protects an athlete's teeth—has remained relatively unchanged for the past 60 years.
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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan
There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane....
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Behind the Scenes of the Internet's First Football Game
At 5:05 AM Sunday, long before the rest of Sunnyvale, California, will wake up, Yahoo's control room is packed.
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...
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New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous
At the end of a semester teaching an undergraduate math course a few years ago, Cornell Tech researcher and crypto professor Rafael Pass asked his students to fill...
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