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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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Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, p 22%
Enrollment for computer science bachelor's degree programs in the U.S. jumped 22 percent last year, according to the Computing Research Association's 2013 Taulbee...
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion
Dominant viewpoints emerge quickly on Twitter and, once stabilized, become difficult to change, according to new study.
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Scientists Build Thinner, Stronger, More Energy Efficient Leds
University of Washington scientists have built the thinnest-known LED that can be used as a source of light energy in electronics.
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029
In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...
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Texas School Offers First-of-a-Kind Data Center Engineering Degree
Southern Methodist University says it will offer a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in data center engineering, with classes starting this fall.
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.
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One-Hit Wonders
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...
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Squeezing Light Into Metals
University of Utah electrical engineers used an inexpensive inkjet printer to produce microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information.
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Stanford Engineers Create a Software Tool to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Computing
We hear a lot about the future of computing in the cloud, but not much about the efficiency of the data centers that make the cloud possible.
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Language Barriers
The British scientist and polymath Stephen Wolfram has always had big ambitions.
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Computer Science Students Help Singers Learn Their Vowels
Voice students who want to perfect how they sing their vowels can get help from a new free application called Vowel Shapes developed by a group of University of...
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Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer Into a Three-Armed Cyborg
Professor Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech has created a robotic drumming prosthesis that can be attached to an amputee to allow for more control and creativity with...
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.
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Computer Coding More in Demand Than Languages, Survey Shows
Software programming should take priority over modern languages in British schools, according to a Code.org survey of more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom...
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