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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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Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.
Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...
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Not So Safe: Security Software Can Put Computers at Risk
New research from Concordia University shows security software might actually make online computing less safe.
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Phoney but Real Protection For Passwords
A proposed system called Phoney uses honeywords, or false passwords, to protect compromised systems.
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Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers
Donald Trump has proven a lot of people wrong, and not just because a year ago today none of us—perhaps not even Trump—would have imagined in our wildest fever...
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S and China Eye p European Gravitational-Wave Mission
In the wake of the historic detection of gravitational waves by a terrestrial US experiment, a space-borne European effort is drawing interest from a range of parties...
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Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...
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Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...
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Poor Neighborhoods, Poor Mobile Signal
A new study shows a mobile divide between individuals and households in urban or affluent areas and those in rural or lower-income areas.
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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Retweeting May Overload Your Brain
Research finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen. Worse...
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Statheads Are the Best Free Agent Bargains in Baseball
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.
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Measuring Happiness on Social Media
University of Iowa computer scientists found that Twitter users' feelings of long-term happiness and satisfaction with their lives remained steady over time, consistent...
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Apple Services Shut Down in China in Startling About-Face
For years, there has been a limit to the success of American technology companies in China. Capture too much market share or wield too much influence, and Beijing...
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Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite
NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...
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