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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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A Machine in the Co-Pilot's Seat
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...
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Palmer Luckey: Making Virtual Reality a Reality
"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...
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Zero Latency: The Vr Revolution Begins in Melbourne, Australia
Stepping onto the large freight elevator, my body sways to keep balanced as the rising platform lifts me into the zombie-infested city above.
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Kaspersky Lab: Based In Russia, Doing Cybersecurity In The West
Given Russia's cyber skills, it's not surprising that a Russian entrepreneur, Eugene Kaspersky, runs one of the world's leading companies offering protection from...
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Nasa's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces For the First Time
They're united by a lofty goal—to investigate whether Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell.
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Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away
In the ten years that I’ve been watching him, Larry Page has always wanted to play by his own rules.
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The Man Making Puzzles For Hackers
If you want to know how to keep 16,000 geeks entertained, ask the Lost Boy aka Ryan Clarke.
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Cyberattacks as Significant as Traditional Threats, Says Battleship Manufacturer
Warfare is increasingly being fought from behind computer screens rather than on the battlefield, forcing weapons manufacturers to consider the myriad of threats...
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How Fiction Can Reveal the Horrors of Future Wars
The fact that he couldn't feel the drill going into the back of his skull made the noise all the more terrifying.
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When a Smart Home Is Too Smart For Its Own Good
At his home in New York, hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager has a "smart-home" system that allows him to remotely control the lighting, window shades...
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U.s. Researchers Show Computers Can Be Hijacked to Send Data As Sound Waves
A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send...
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Welcome to the Metaverse
Ebbe Altberg needs about a paragraph to define human life: "What humans do is create spaces," the gregarious 51-year-old executive says, leaning back at a table...
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How Baseball's Tech Team Built the Future of Television
It was the first week of April, 2015, and New York's Chelsea Market, typically packed with hordes of noisy tourists, was quiet. It was close to midnight, but five...
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Facing Islamic State Threat, Iraq Digitizes National Library
The dimly lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and...
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China to Restrict Drone, Supercomputer Exports
China will restrict the export of drones and supercomputers from Aug. 15 to help protect national security out of fears such equipment could fall into the hands...
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Click Here to Hack the Network
This week is hacker week in Las Vegas. The desert playground is hosting three conferences dedicated to computer security—Black Hat USA, Def Con, and BSides LV.
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The Cyber-Mechanics Who Protect Your Car from Hackers
A couple of weeks ago, a small team of security researchers gathered near a car parked outside one of their company’s buildings.
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For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program
She is known as Xiaoice, and millions of young Chinese pick up their smartphones every day to exchange messages with her, drawn to her knowing sense of humor and...
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Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...
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New Email Archive Tool to Sift Literary Legacies
The leather-bound diaries of a 19th-century high-school principal in southwestern India are helping change how archivists around the world handle email.
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