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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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How to Make Better Visualizations
Eye-tracking research reveals which types of visualizations best convey information and make it memorable.
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Inside the Economics of Hacking
Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...
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The Hot New Job in Silicon Valley Is Being a Robot's Assistant
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?
"I like to drive cars," says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, "so this is a little funny."
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How Activists Are Forcing the White House to Say Where It Stands on Encryption
A petition calling for President Obama to support strong encryption and "reject any law, policy or mandate" that would undermine digital security reached 100,000...
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Beyond Siri: Colorado State Researchers Are Bridging Human-Computer Interaction
Looking to transform human-computer interaction, Colorado State University researchers are developing technologies to help computers recognize non-verbal commands...
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The Gop Has a Tech Talent Problem It Might Not Solve
Scott Walker's withdrawal from the 2016 presidential race last month was tough on staffers like Matt Oczkowski—as it turns out, tougher than he thought.
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Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...
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p to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car or Smartphone
It takes a driver up to 27 seconds to regain full attention after issuing voice commands to a smartphone or car infotainment system while driving, University of...
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You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty...
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...
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How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won
Earlier this month the European Union's top court struck down a major trade agreement that thousands of companies use to transfer Europeans' personal data to the...
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social...
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon.
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.
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