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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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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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Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the...
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What Will Hackers Do with the New Kinect?
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...
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One Day Your Phone Will Know If You're Happy or Sad
As much time as we spend with our cell phones and laptops and tablets, it's still pretty much a one-way relationship.
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Computer Brain Escapes Google's X Lab to Supercharge Search
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...
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40 Years Ago, Ethernet's Fathers Were the Startup Kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs, and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup...
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Intel Ceo Shakes Up Units, Creates 'new Devices' Group
Intel Corp's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has launched a sweeping company reorganization and created a unit aimed at growing its market share in mobile...
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The Audacious Plan to End Hunger with 3D Printed Food
Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself...
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Big Data Could Generate Millions of New Jobs
With data analytics now one of the fastest growing fields in IT, it stands to reason that data scientists are in demand. That's great for people with the requisite...
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Princeton niversity Celebrates the Art of Science
Sometimes the connection between art and science is clear.
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Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care For the Aging
In the opening scene of the movie "Robot & Frank," which takes place in the near future, Frank, an elderly man who lives alone, is arguing with his son about going...
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Why Google and the Pentagon Want 'quantum Computers'
Imagine a computer that can teach your mobile phone to recognize any object it sees, or one that can instantly find optimal travel routes for thousands of planes...
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Moshe Vardi: Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work By 2045
Robots began replacing human brawn long ago—now they're poised to replace human brains.
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Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and...
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Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves
The significance of design in business is ballooning. Over recent years, the field has become a darling of large corporations, even those who traditionally don't...
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Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
Jason Mars is a rarity. He's an outsider with regular access to Google's data centers.
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Treading Carefully, Google Encourages Developers to Hack Glass
Google has set plenty of restrictions on the functionality of apps for Glass, the head-mounted display it is now shipping out to early adopters.
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Dawn of the Bot? New Era Nears, Experts Say
Science fiction is quickly taking a back seat to science fact. Just look at a new report by the country's leading roboticists.
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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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Tedxstanford Highlights Breakthroughs in Research and Creativity, Stanford-Style
They sacrificed a spectacular sunny Saturday afternoon by the hundreds, forgoing all else to sit in a darkened hall to witness hours of intense lectures and art...
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