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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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Got a Face-Recognition Algorithm? ncle Sam Wants to Review It
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
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China's Go Masters and Researchers Are Optimistic About the Country's AI Future
After AlphaGo's historic victory against South Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol in March 2016, Go teacher Jianlun Qian felt a sense of impending crisis. He fretted...
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The Virtual-Reality App That Turns Your Office Into a Vacation Paradise
The British writer Charles Lamb was no stranger to workplace-induced despair.
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.i.?
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...
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Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War
A disembodied voice sounded over a loudspeaker. "Incoming. Take cover," it warned to anyone within earshot. Then, the sirens began to wail.
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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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UW Engineers Build Large Circuits in Living Eukaryotic Cells
A team of researchers has built a set of synthetic genes that function in living cells like NOR gates, a common element of electronic circuitry.
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Printed, Flexible, and Rechargeable Battery Can Power Wearable Sensors
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a printed battery that is flexible, stretchable, and rechargeable, a step toward self-powered...
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Top Hacker Conference to Target Voting Machines
Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are.
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Google Cozies p to China With AI Secrets and a Game of Go
Google's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow—and a few games of Go.
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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The Vr Future Is Here but No One Can Agree on a Name For It
At the VR keynote at Google's IO developer conference, a slide appeared on screen to start the morning's presentation. Clay Bavor, head of AR and VR for Google,...
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Companies se Kidnap Insurance to Guard Against Ransomware Attacks
Companies without cyber insurance are dusting off policies covering kidnap, ransom and extortion in the world's political hotspots to recoup losses caused by ransomware...
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A Chinese Genome Giant Sets Its Sights on the itimate Sequencer
The world's largest genetics research center isn't at Harvard or Stanford or even the NIH. It's a 20-mile drive from Hong Kong International Airport, in the bustling...
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Biology Needs More Staff Scientists
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
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Google, Not the Government, Is Building the Future
One persistent criticism of Silicon Valley is that it no longer works on big, world-changing ideas.
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Robot Rodeo Offers Bomb Squads an nbeatable Experience
Sandia National Laboratories later this month will host the 11th annual Western National Robot Rodeo, a four-day event where civilian and military bomb squad teams...
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The State of the Car Computer: Forget Horsepower, We Want Megahertz!
If I asked you "how many computing devices do you own?" your mind will probably first jump to your PCs and laptops at home, and then to your smartphones and tablets...
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Europe's Latest Billion-Dollar Startup Wants to Build the Matrix. Really.
A London-based software startup called Improbable is living up to its name.
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