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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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For Start-ps, How Many Angels Is Too Many?
Shortly after presenting her start-up to potential investors at a conference, Nancy Hua was bombarded by eager suitors.
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When it comes to dashboard displays that are more like smart phones, two things are clear: Customers want them, and automakers are intent on supplying them.
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Autonomous Taxis Would Deliver Significant Environmental and Economic Benefits
A new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that a fleet of driverless taxis would be cost-effective and would greatly reduce per-mile greenhouse...
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Meet Our Future Robosimian Heroes
Not all robots are built for war and destruction.
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Machine Ethics: The Robot's Dilemma
In his 1942 short story 'Runaround', science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics—engineering safeguards and built-in ethical principles...
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As More Tech Start-ps Stay Private, So Does the Money
Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working...
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No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution
Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government’s office of periodicals and publications early last year...
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An Eerie Drone Flight nder London's Streets
The view begins high above the London rooftops, the kind of eye-view usually seen only by crane operators working in cramped cabins.
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What Washington Really Knows About the Internet of Things
President Barack Obama wears a FitBit monitor on his wrist to count his steps and calories, and has waxed poetic about the power of wearable technology to "give...
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2015 STEM Index Shows Gender, Racial Gaps Widen
The 2015 U.S. News/Raytheon STEM Index shows that, despite the efforts of corporations and non-profits, the gender and racial gaps in science, technology, engineering...
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Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling
It is such an exciting time to be a filmmaker.
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.
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When a Company Is Put p For Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company "respects your privacy."
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Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?
Hiring and recruiting might seem like some of the least likely jobs to be automated.
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Sean Parker: Philanthropy For Hackers
In the past several decades, there has been a monumental shift in the distribution of wealth on the planet.
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6 Reasons Why We're nderhyping the Internet of Things
Just when you thought the Internet of Things couldn't possibly live up to its hype, along comes a blockbuster, 142-page report from McKinsey Global Institute ("The...
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Naval Research Funding to Bolster Cyber Defense
Nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering will fund...
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How the .s. Finally Tracked Down a Hacker Kingpin
For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.
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Humans Are Tech's Next Big Thing—and That Could Be Risky
Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world's most precious commodities: your attention.
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'epic' Fail—how Opm Hackers Tapped the Mother Lode of Espionage Data
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.
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