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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 Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true.
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The Rise and Fall of Blackberry: An Oral History
In 1984, Mike Lazaridis, an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and Douglas Fregin, an engineering student at the University of Windsor, founded...
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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games
Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting...
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Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks p
Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother.
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China Bars Banks from Bitcoin Transactions
China's government banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin on Thursday, in what analysts said was a restrained first step towards regulating the digital...
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Imagine Your Face As Your Future Iphone Password
You may one day be able to unlock your iPhone based just on your good looks.
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Diagnosis For Healthcare.gov: nrealistic Technology Expectations
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn't all bureaucratic.
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Jury: Newegg Infringes Spangenberg Patent, Must Pay $2.3 Million
Newegg, an online retailer that has made a name for itself fighting the non-practicing patent holders sometimes called "patent trolls," sits on the losing end of...
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Meet The 'assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin.
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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It's Official: Computer Scientists Pick Stronger Passwords
Carnegie Mellon University researchers examined the passwords that 25,000 faculty, staff, and students used to access grades, financial transcripts, and other sensitive...
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Israel's Idf Lures Female Recruits For Computer Corps
In Israel, like most of the world, the universe of computer whizzes and technology entrepreneurs is overwhelmingly male.
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Microsoft's New Cybercrime Center Combines Tactics Against Hacking Groups
The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers...
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Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It
The internet backbone—the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels—went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active...
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Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition pgrade
The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through...
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They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets.
At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for...
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How Corporate America Fights Hackers
To defend themselves against hackers, some of America's largest corporations have adopted shadowy tactics usually reserved for government spies.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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Cybersecurity Algorithms, Techniques Being Developed Through Anthropology Methods
Experts in anthropology and cybersecurity at Kansas State University are examining the unspoken knowledge shared by cybersecurity analysts as a way to develop...
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