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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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Investing in startups is like bird-watching, or at least that's the quote from legendary venture capitalist Mike Moritz.
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The Next Steve Jobs Is Going to Come From One of These 13 Surprising Schools
Harvard and Stanford may jump to mind when it comes to tech titans. But for the next generation of entrepreneur, we may need to look outside the Ivy League.
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Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests
Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, according to a new study that examined 140,000 papers published between...
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Study Identifies New Cheating Method in Moocs
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have identified a new method of cheating specific to MOOCs and recommend a number of strategies to prevent such cheating...
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What Is Elegance in Science?
In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has launched a new website, LinkEngineering, intended to help PreK-12 educators in the United States implement engineering...
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Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity
Argonne National Laboratory hosted a summer coding camp that showed 42 Chicago-area high school students what it's like to be a STEM professional.
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pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley
For the last year, Google's work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns.
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Scarcity of Computing Talent Concerns Experts
Software development is rapidly transforming computing technology to the benefit of society, but the scarcity of "computing talent in the pipeline" impacts the...
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Hardware From Old Nuclear Weapons Systems Becomes Valuable Teaching Resource
Sandia National Laboratories is preserving the history of nuclear weapons in hardware developed since the start of the nuclear era as a way to connect new generations...
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How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands
There has been a notable spike since 2009 in the number of technical reports whose author counts exceeded 1,000 people, according to the Thomson Reuters Web of...
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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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Smartphone Screen Lets You Reach Out and Touch Some 'thing'
A tiny startup outside Chicago has created external hardware for a smartphone that enables a user to feel as well as see an image on flat glass.
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Developers Teach Apple Chinese
Like other smartphone makers, Apple is trying to keep China happy.
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Inside the Struggle to Create Great Apple Watch Apps
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in January 2007, he touted it as three gadgets in one: "a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary...
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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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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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Politics Overshadows U.s. Tech Firms' Hopes For Entering Iran
Iran has the potential to be a boom market for American tech companies.
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