Professor of Computer Science in association with St John's College - University of Oxford - Oxford, United Kingdom
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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 Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true.
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...
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The American Who Designed the Playstation 4 and Remade Sony
Shuhei Yoshida still remembers the call that convinced him Sony needed to change.
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they’ve shown...
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Want to Evade Nsa Spying? Don't Connect to the Internet
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA.
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Google Couldn't Kill 20 Percent Time Even If It Wanted To
Google’s "20 percent time" is dead—or so we worried.
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Your Creative, Open Hackathon Is Ripe For Legal Challenges
NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...
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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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Hong Kong Looks to Build nderground Datacentre Caves
With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space, and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world, Hong Kong...
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The Ar-15 Is More Than a Gun. It's a Gadget
I was shaking as I shouldered the rifle and peered through the scope at the small steel target 100 yards downrange.
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The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future
Tesco—the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain—uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff.
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Meet the Detective Who Handcuffed Intel's Packet of Death
When Kristian Kielhofner first heard that his company's new servers were crashing last summer, he worried that he might be facing a product recall.
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest .s. Robot Market
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.
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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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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
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