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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 Company Website Is Making a Comeback
For years now, companies have been vying for attention on social streams controlled by the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
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How Two Sound Geeks Created Facebook's Friendly 'ping' Tone
About two weeks ago, a question popped up on Quora asking: "How much research has gone into developing the Facebook 'ping' sound?"
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'chinese Google' nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains
Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...
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Hacking the Drone War's Secret History
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...
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Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox For $100m
When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public.
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New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os
For the past few years, Sundar Pichai has been part of a tag-team routine staged at Google's annual I/O developer conference.
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Why iPhone Accessory Makers Love Bluetooth
Apple's closed ecosystem is losing the battle for how we connect our mobile devices to accessories as open solutions like Bluetooth dominate over Apple's proprietary...
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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Meet the Woman Who Launched a Billion Clicks
Designer Susan Kare is the icon of icons. Her presence, as screen graphics and digital font designer at Apple in the '80s, helped establish the paradigm of icons...
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Why Game Developers Are Flocking to Sony and Fleeing From Microsoft
In an age where most big games ship on multiple platforms, it was a Sony exclusive that took home the grand prize at last week's Game Developers Choice awards,...
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Why It's Time For Our Devices to nderstand What We Mean, Not Just What We Say
It wasn’t just cost and Moore’s law. The graphical user interface—now known as the GUI ("gooey")—is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous...
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.
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.s. Spies Want to Play Alternate-Reality Games (for Work, They Swear)
Alternate-reality games are no longer just for geeks and corporations that want to sell you stuff.
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The Other Ted Prize
Sergey Brin waltzed in for a try and threw up a score of 250,953, first time out of the gate and with Google Glass still perched on his face.
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...
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In Big Tech, Bet on Companies That Seek a 'better Way'
Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don't really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check in to the restaurants and shops...
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Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with...
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The Next Big Os War Is in Your Dashboard
Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...
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