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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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A Peek nder the Hood at the Brains of Self-Driving Cars
What car maker today doesn't seem to have an autonomous car bumbling around its test lot?
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
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Masculine Open Online Courses
Men appear to outnumber women by a significant margin as teachers of massive open online courses (MOOCs), although the gap might be closing.
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The Big Data Employment Boom
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.
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Wireless Network Detects Falls by the Elderly
University of Utah electrical engineers have developed a network of wireless sensors that can detect a person falling. This technology could be linked to a service...
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Touch Goes Digital
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in touch technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store,...
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How Power Poses Can Help Your Career
The key to future career success might have less to do with technical skills, and more with the ability to strike a "power pose." Researchers have found that a...
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Engineers Make Golden Breakthrough to Improve Electronic Devices
In work that may greatly improve future electronics, a Kansas State University research team has studied a new three-atom-thick material and found that manipulating...
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
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Bigshot Camera Aims High
Columbia University Computer Science Professor Shree Nayar has launched Bigshot, a kit that features a build-it-yourself digital camera designed to serve as both...
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10 Hottest It Jobs: Developers, Developers, Developers
Software developers — particularly mobile developers in particular — are among the most sought-after hires within the IT world, according to a new survey from...
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Jonathon Fletcher: Forgotten Father of the Search Engine
As Google celebrates its 15th birthday, the Web giant has become a byword for information retrieval.
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IT Monitoring Effective in Deterring Fraud
For many firms, losing significant revenue and profit to employee theft has been a cost of doing business. But a new study finds that information technology monitoring...
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Nasa Is Turning Science Fiction Into Fact
As a new moon orbiter gets set to launch, Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames, says forget the 20th—this is the real space century.
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Why It Has to Change How It Recruits Talent
For any IT executive, not just C-level executives, it's important to foster a diverse workforce where everyone can reach his or her full potential. This means creating...
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Who Will Prosper in the New World
Self-driving vehicles threaten to send truck drivers to the unemployment office.
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The STEM Crisis Is a Myth
You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can't find enough workers in those fields...
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It's a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technology
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media.
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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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