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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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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car, to Prove a Point
Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online—an evolution of technology called the ...
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Bad News FBI, Snowden's Favorite Chat App Is Booming
The encrypted chat app Signal, which NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden once said he uses every day, just got a mighty $50 million in funding intended to boost the...
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Fur Real – Scientists Improve Computer Rendering of Animal Fur
Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley have developed a method that dramatically improves the way computers simulate fur, and more specifically, the way...
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The Father of the Internet Sees His Invention Reflected Back Through a 'Black Mirror'
In 1984, two men were thinking a lot about the Internet. One of them invented it. The other is an artist who would see its impact on society with uncanny prescience...
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Supertall Towers Are Driving an Elevator Revolution
Two thousand years ago, the Romans used elevators—powered by pulleys, levers, and slaves—to raise gladiators and wild beasts into the Colosseum for death-match...
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sing Science and Humanities to Step Back in Time
Researchers from the University of California San Diego traveled to Turin, Italy to digitally map an entire portion of the city—complete with historic architecture...
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One Hour of Video Gaming Can Increase the Brain's Ability to Focus
Students who spent one hour playing video games demonstrated improved visual selective attention and changes in brain activity.
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Hyperinflation Meets Tech: Cash-Scarce Venezuela Sees Boom in Payment Apps
Widerven Villegas and his brother wash some 30 cars a day at a parking lot in Caracas. Despite charging less than 50 cents, nobody pays them in cash.
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Researchers Use Wearables, Mobile Devices to Study Workplace Performance
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are conducting a $7.9 million, 21-month study focused on working professionals in cognitively demanding positions, such...
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His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming
Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining...
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Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort
Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...
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A Maker Space Where Art and Technology Merge
Yale University's Center for Collaborative Arts & Media is outfitted with a motion capture system, an interactive projection system, and an integrated platform...
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Your Gadget's Next Power Supply? Your Body
Researchers have developed a small metallic tab that attaches to the human body and generates electricity from simple movements.
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Want Awesome Robots? You'll Have to Best These Challenges
We are living in the midst of a profound technological restructuring of human society. The machines that once only frolicked in science fiction have begun to infiltrate...
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How Immersive Technology Is Changing the Way Students Learn
California State University is working to add more pilot projects and courses on its campuses to leverage the power of augmented reality and virtual reality.
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Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence Flywheel
In early 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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How Intel Creates Its Dazzling Drone Light Shows
After the lights went dark in the Monte Carlo resort's Park Theater, a buzzing army of 110 small drones with flickering red lights started to float up to the ceiling...
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The Follower Factory
The real Jessica Rychly is a Minnesota teenager with a broad smile and wavy hair. She likes reading and the rapper Post Malone.
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Every Study We Could Find on What Automation Will Do to Jobs, in One Chart
You've seen the headlines: "Robots Will Destroy Our Jobs—and We're Not Ready for It." "You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think." "Robots May...
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