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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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How a Grad Student Trying to Build the First Botnet Brought the Internet to Its Knees
On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever.
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Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business
Big companies are putting wearables to work.
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Get a Security Boost: Add More Women to Your Cyber Team
A dearth of women in IT and cybersecurity positions may be playing a role in the frequent failure of enterprise cybersecurity strategies and defense, according...
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...
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Summit Addresses How to Attract Underrepresented-Minority Students to STEM Careers
The United Negro College Fund's HBCU Innovation Summit last week was aimed at finding ways to get more young people, especially underrepresented minorities, to...
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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Computer Model Anticipates Crime Hot Spots
A unique collaboration between a University of California, Riverside sociologist and the Indio Police Department has produced a computer model that predicts where...
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Sportvision Wants to Take You (Home) to the Ball Game
These days, you'd be forgiven if you're more excited about watching the "big game"—whether that's football, basketball, hockey—on TV rather than from inside a sports...
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Computer Science Education: The 'why' and 'how'
Some U.S. states are starting to boost computer science education as a way to prepare students for high-paying jobs that will help boost the economy.
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How to Program Unreliable Chips
A new language lets coders reason about the trade-off between fidelity of execution and power or time savings in the computers of the future.
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Researcher Explores Student Online Collaboration
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Carnegie Mellon University are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study blended learning in which...
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Mars Express Flyover of the Red Planet
From the highest volcano to the deepest canyon, from impact craters to ancient river beds and lava flows, this showcase of images from ESA's Mars Express takes...
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Will the Next Nate Silver Please Stand p?
Ever since Nate Silver made a splash with his freakishly accurate election predictions, all sorts of companies have been looking for their own rock-star data scientists...
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Engineers Develop Real-Time, 3-D Teleconferencing Technology
Iowa State engineers have developed 3-D teleconferencing technology that's live, real-time, and streaming at 30 frames per second. They say the technology could...
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University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School
Recent engineering graduate Mike McCauley is living the dream.
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Behind the Scenes at Google's Quantum AI Lab
Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab in May installed the 512-qubit D-Wave Two computer from D-Wave Systems, under the direction of NASA, to explore quantum...
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I Am Woman, Watch Me Hack
The ranks of women in computer science are low and dwindling, and many industry observers blame the field's gender disparity on a public image problem.
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The Clever Circuit That Doubles Bandwidth
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
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