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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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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem.
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Google in Jeopardy: What If IBM's Watson Dethroned the King of Search?
Remember Watson, IBM's Jeopardy! champion?
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Facial Recognition Is More Accurate in Photos Showing Whole Person
Humans rely on non-facial cues, such as body shape and build, to identify people in challenging viewing conditions or when faces are obscured. Interestingly, people...
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New Book Aims To Demystify the se of Algorithms in Composing Music
A new book, Algorithmic Composition, serves as a guide for musicians and computer scientists interested in learning to use algorithms to create music.
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Gender Barriers, Not Families, to Blame For Shortage of Women in STEM Careers
A new study examining the factors behind the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields finds no evidence that women are opting...
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.S. Ranks Fourth in Internet Freedom as Surveillance Grows Worldwide
Although U.S. Internet freedom has decreased over the past year due to surveillance, the United States still ranks fourth in a recent Freedom House study of 60...
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Swarm of Rivals Seeking Share of Social Media Pie
Twitter, poised to make its splashy entrance on Wall Street, has helped define modern social networking.
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How Tom Clancy Changed Video Games
The widespread mourning of Tom Clancy's death last week is clear testament to a man who managed to have a significant impact across a range of media.
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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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The New Digital Playbook For Learning Mandarin Chinese
David Moser, the academic director at CET Beijing Chinese Studies, remembers the bad old days of Mandarin-learning methodology in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
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Jellyfish Removal Robot Developed
A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed an unmanned robotic system that locates and removes jellyfish.
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A Digital Copy of the niverse, Encrypted
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...
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Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question
Is the world's first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not?
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Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library For World's Software Code
In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company.
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Intel's Galileo Aims X86 Chips at Arduino Hardware Hackers
Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...
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NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy 'Comet' Supercomputer
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation to deploy...
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