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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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Information Technology: A Digital Genius at Play
The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...
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Wimbledon 2017: The Tech Behind the World's Top Tennis Tournament
The Championships at Wimbledon, which consumes some 28 tons of strawberries, 10,000 litres of cream, and 320,000 glasses of Pimm's per year, is notable for its...
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AI and 'enormous Data' Could Make Tech Giants Harder to Topple
Another week, another record-breaking AI research study released by Google—this time with results that are a reminder of a crucial business dynamic of the current...
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Why Robots Won't Steal All Our Jobs
Don't worry. The robots won't destroy all our jobs. History suggests just the opposite—that new technologies inspire new jobs.
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.s. Spends $65 Million to Build Brain Implants
The quest to create a real link between machines and human brains has potentially groundbreaking consequences.
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How an Mlb All-Star's Secret Weapon Can Help You Hit Better, Too
Three months ago, Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa flat out told me he was going to have a breakout season and tech was going to play a big role....
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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All the Promises Automakers Have Made About the Future of Cars
Yet another announcement came yesterday: Volvo, the Swedish slash Chinese car company, announced that it will only offer electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019.
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Will Brain-Inspired Chips Make a Dent in Science's Big Data Problems?
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are examining how low-power, brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems...
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Quantum Computers Compete For 'supremacy'
Scientists have long dreamed of developing quantum computers, machines that rely on arcane laws of physics to perform tasks far beyond the capability of today's...
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Practical Parallelism
Researchers at MIT' CSAIL have developed a system that makes parallel programs run much more efficiently and also makes them easier to code.
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Image Doctoring Must Be Halted
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
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New Natural Selection: How Scientists Are Altering Dna to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life
Before human beings wrote books or did math or composed music, we made leather.
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This Iphone Designer Says No More Screens
In June 2016, Tony Fadell, the chief executive officer of Nest and one of the most important hardware executives of his generation, announced that he was leaving...
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nder Pressure, Western Tech Firms Bow to Russian Demands to Share Cyber Secrets
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time...
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Cotton Candy Capillaries Lead to Circuit Boards that Dissolve When Cooled
Cotton candy capillaries provide a foundation for transient electronics that are operational in warm water but dissolve at cooler temperatures.
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For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
When I saw that Google had introduced a "Classic Papers" section of Google Scholar, its search tool for academic journals, I couldn't help but stroke my chin professorially...
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Why No One nder 20 Has Experienced a Day Without Nasa at Mars
As the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft approached its destination on July 4, 1997, no NASA mission had successfully reached the Red Planet in more than 20 years.
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Amazon Robots Poised to Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses
When Amazon.com Inc.'s $13.7 billion bid to buy Whole Foods was announced, John Mackey, the grocer's chief executive officer, addressed employees, gushing about...
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