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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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Supertall Towers Are Driving an Elevator Revolution
Two thousand years ago, the Romans used elevators—powered by pulleys, levers, and slaves—to raise gladiators and wild beasts into the Colosseum for death-match...
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FBI Director Warns Huawei Phones Pose Spy Threat
The head of the FBI has warned that the Chinese government may be spying on U.S. citizens who use smartphones made by Huawei.
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Hyperinflation Meets Tech: Cash-Scarce Venezuela Sees Boom in Payment Apps
Widerven Villegas and his brother wash some 30 cars a day at a parking lot in Caracas. Despite charging less than 50 cents, nobody pays them in cash.
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Can Social Media Data Help Predict Threats or Identify Fake News?
Professor Conrad Tucker of Penn State University has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to investigate whether crowd-sourced data from social media can be...
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Kelli Ward Touts Endorsement from Fake-News Site
It looked as if Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward had scored a big endorsement: On Oct. 28, she posted a link on her campaign website and blasted out a Facebook...
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Crypto-Currency Craze 'Hinders Search for Alien Life'
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers want to expand operations at two observatories.
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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Biologists Would Love to Program Cells As If They Were Computer Chips
Sitting in his startup lab space on the outskirts of MIT's campus, Alec Nielsen opens his laptop and types in instructions for a genetically modified yeast cell...
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As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent
In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030.
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Sky-High Salaries Are the Weapons in the AI Talent War
If you want to command a multiyear, seven-figure salary, you used to have only four career options: chief executive officer, banker, celebrity entertainer, or pro...
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His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming
Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining...
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Inside Facebook's Fast-Growing Content-Moderation Effort
Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...
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How Nuclear Weapons Research Revealed New Climate Threats
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...
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Mourning John Perry Barlow, the Bard of the Internet
When I first met John Perry Barlow, we became instant soulmates. While that sentence is true for me, it also applies to probably 10,000 other people.
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Inside North Korea's Hacker Army
In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...
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German Navy Experiences 'lcs Syndrome' in Spades as New Frigate Fails Sea Trials
The German Navy has a lot of problems right now.
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Get Ready For Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says
The tumble in cryptocurrencies that erased nearly $500 billion of market value over the past month could get a lot worse, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s...
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How I Coined the Term Open Source
Christine Peterson provides her account of originating the term "open source software."
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How to Design a New Chip on a Budget
We recently had an interesting exchange with bunnie Huang, hardware guru and creator of Chumby, NetTV, and the Novena laptop, among other things. He's also theHacking...
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From Drones to Dredgers: Stop China's Top Tech Falling Into Foreign Hands, Military Warns
China's military has raised the alarm about the country's cutting-edge tech falling into foreign hands—as Beijing continues to come under fire from the West for...
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