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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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A year ago, Andrew Torba would have balked at the idea of regulating the Internet.
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The Myth of the Skills Gap
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As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Purdue Enrollment in Computer Science Doubles in Five Years
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Widening Horizons For High Schoolers With Code
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
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Studies: Automated Safety Systems Are Preventing Car Crashes
Safety systems to prevent cars from drifting into another lane or that warn drivers of vehicles in their blind spots are beginning to live up to their potential...
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The Tech Industry Is Hiring Israeli Engineers as Fast as the Army Can Produce Them
United Airlines started a three-flights-per-week service from San Francisco to Tel Aviv last year.
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The Enduring Legacy of Zork
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Women Make p Just 29% of All Israeli Computer Science Students
Although women account for 58% of all students pursing a bachelor's degree at Israel's universities and colleges, the rate among students of computer science was...
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A Cancer 'atlas' to Predict How Patients Will Fare
Understanding the genetic changes in tumors that distinguish the most lethal cancers from more benign ones could help doctors better treat patients.
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What the Announced nsa / Cyber Command Split means
The move to elevate Cyber Command to a full Unified Combatant Command and split it off from the National Security Agency or NSA shows that cyber intelligence collection...
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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Ap Computer Science Draws in More Girls, Minorities
More young women took an Advanced Placement computer science exam in 2016 than in 2007 through 2013 combined, mainly because of the College Board's new AP CS Principles...
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The World's Biggest Tech Companies Are No Longer Just American
The technology world's $400 billion-and-up club—long a group of exclusively American names like Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon—needs to make room...
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Science Doesn't Explain Tech's Diversity Problem – History Does
The idea that women or people of color lack the innate qualities that white men possess to succeed in high-status, elite professions is decades old. It is a tired...
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'it Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them
For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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