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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Organic Synthesis: The Robo-Chemist
In faded photographs from the 1960s, organic-chemistry laboratories look like an alchemist's paradise.
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Powering p a Phone, No Cords Needed
It may not seem hard to plug a cord into the wall to charge your mobile phone or tablet. Nonetheless, a number of companies are trying to figure out how to save...
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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley
Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots.
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Hacker Says to Show Passenger Jets at Risk of Cyber Attack
Cyber security researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight...
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Experimental Software Allows 3D Object Manipulation in 2d Photos
The scene in Blade Runner is famous: taking a grainy photo, Rick Deckard zooms, enhances and moves around corners just as you would a 3D space.
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Diamond Defect Clears Path to Better Quantum Computers
Planting imperfections called "NV centers" at specific spots within a diamond lattice could advance quantum computing and atomic-scale measurement.
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Fiendish Million-Dollar Proof Eludes Mathematicians
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?
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Rosetta Spacecraft Set For nprecedented Close Study of a Comet
After 10 years and four billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will arrive at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close...
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Can Google Build a Typeface to Support Every Written Language?
Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects—digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.
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Space Agencies Battle to Keep Mars Mission on Track
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet...
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The Data Centers of Tomorrow Will se the Same Tech Our Phones Do
The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the data center.
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Where Tech Is Taking s: A Conversation With Intel's Genevieve Bell
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.
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Going to the Red Planet
Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...
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Finally, a Way to Teach Coding to the Touchscreen Generation
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.
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Finding Quantum Lines of Desire
Scientists have made the first continuous measurements of the trajectories of a quantum system between two points.
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Understanding the Source of Extra-Large Capacities in Li-Ion Battery Electrodes
Researchers recently studied a class of lithium-ion battery electrodes to determine why these materials have greater storage capacities than materials used in today's...
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Physicists nlock Nature of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Physicists have identified the "quantum glue" that underlies a promising type of superconductivity — a crucial step towards the creation of energy superhighways...
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When Robots Come For Our Jobs, Will We Be Ready to Outsmart Them?
Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...
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Google's New Moonshot Project: The Human Body
Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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