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Livermore, CA, United States
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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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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups
Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.
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How to Conquer the Galaxy on a Computer
Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.
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Flock of Geneticists Redraws Bird Family Tree
Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...
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A Web App That Visualizes Wikipedia as a Starry Galaxy of Articles
Useful as it may be, Wikipedia is an eyesore.
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The Future of .s. Innovation Might Rest on This Obscure Patent Lawsuit
Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....
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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
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When a Chart Is Worth a Thousand Words
A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.
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More-Flexible Digital Communication
Researchers have begun to describe theoretical limits on the degree of imprecision that communicating computers can tolerate, with very real implications for...
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What Are Moocs Good For?
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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The Sites That Know Your Dream Job Before You Do
Maybe you read Gone Girl because Amazon recommended it; watched Breaking Bad because Netflix suggested you'd like it; even met the love of your life because OKCupid...
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Get Your Head Around the 13 Boldest Ideas in Science
Science is full of mind-blowing and counterintuitive concepts.
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Print Thyself
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...
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Boston Is an Innovation Hotbed and Doesn't Care Whether You Know It
The engineers and scientists spilling out of Greater Boston’s world-class universities built the foundations of the modern computing era and amassed the densest...
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Apple and IBM Introduce First Offerings in Line of Mobile Apps For Business
For years, there has been a lot of talk about the consumerization of technology in the workplace. But so far, that has mostly meant employees using smartphones...
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Power to the Internet of Things
As many as 50 billion devices will be online by the end of the decade.
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The Huge, nseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps
The maps we use to navigate have come a long way in a short time.
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Microsoft Billionaire Takes On Cell Biology
Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Allen plans to pump US$100 million into investigating the most basic unit of life—the cell.
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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