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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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Building a Better Mouse Trap, From the Atoms p
University of Connecticut researchers have systematized the search for new materials by using machine learning to scan millions of theoretical compounds for qualities...
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The Secret to 3-D Graphene? Just Freeze It
Researchers used a modified 3-D printer and frozen water to create lattice-shaped cubes and a 3-D truss using graphene oxide. The structures could be an important...
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The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?
Researchers from MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria report that they have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap.
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A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck
Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...
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A Better 3-D Camera with Clear, Graphene Light Detectors
A camera that can record 3-D images and video is under development at the University of Michigan. The design will be smaller and able to achieve higher resolutions...
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show
On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...
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Electron-Beam Imaging Sees Elements That Are 'invisible' to Common Methods
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed and tested a new imaging technique that greatly improves images of light elements using fewer...
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Apple Encryption Stand Highlights Mobile Operators' Dilemma
Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...
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The Robots Are Coming For Wall Street
When Daniel Nadler woke on Nov. 6, he had just enough time to pour himself a glass of orange juice and open his laptop before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released...
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Quantum Dot Solids: This Generation's Silicon Wafer?
Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of electronics 60 years ago, a group of Cornell researchers is hoping its work with quantum...
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To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare
"Are you sure they're there?" the decision maker asks. "They" are Qaeda operatives who have been planning attacks against the United States.
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Moving Electrons Around Loops with Light
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate a quantum logic operation, or rotation of the qubit, that is intrinsically resilient to noise as well as to...
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Buildings Wrapped in High-Efficiency, Flexible Solar Cells? It Could Happen
A patented breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells by 50 percent, and could...
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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Bat-Inspired Design For Micro Air Vehicles
Researchers from the University of Southampton have designed innovative membrane wings inspired by bats, paving the way for a new breed of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles...
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The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of
A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...
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Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave
The first direct detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window in physics and astronomy—rewarding a cohort of young researchers who gambled on finding...
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World nemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...
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