Computational Physicist - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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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 Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Raymond Laflamme can't yet sell you a quantum computer. But he'll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.
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Mail from the (velvet) Cybercrime nderground
Over the past six months, "fans" of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways.
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As Work Habits Change, Software Makers Rush to Innovate
Every day, millions of office workers prepare memos and reports using scissors and paste, and store data on floppy disks, though they have plenty of digital memory...
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Government Can Grab Cell Phone Location Records Without Warrant, Appeals Court Says
In a major victory for the Justice Department over privacy advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government agencies can collect records showing...
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Onstar, Garmin Try to Keep Pace With Waze, Other Free Navigation Apps
When Tim Nixon’s sons want to figure out how to get somewhere in their cars, they turn their iPhones sideways, attach them to their windshields with a suction cup...
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Zeroing In on nbreakable Computer Security
The news out of Moscow of late has been dominated by Edward Snowden, the American leaker of secret state documents who is currently seeking temporary asylum in...
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Rethinking How We Watch Tv
To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.
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How a Satellite Called Syncom Changed the World
In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union's newly launched Sputnik satellite would regularly streak across the Los Angeles sky, a bright dot in the black night.
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Software Experts Attack Cars, to Release Code As Hackers Meet
Car hacking is not a new field, but its secrets have long been closely guarded.
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Nsa Growth Fueled By Need to Target Terrorists
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...
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How Samsung Is Beating Apple in China
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...
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San Jose Giants Harness Mobile App to Help with Digital Future
On game days, Ben Taylor has one of the most nerve-racking jobs on the San Jose Giants.
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The Mooc That Roared
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...
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Research Update: Genome Editing Becomes More Accurate
Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...
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E-Book Vs. P-Book
When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...
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Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine
Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...
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Astronomer Uses Kepler Telescope's Data in Hunt For Spacecraft from Other Worlds
In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...
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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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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...
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Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...
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