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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 $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple?
Lounging poolside in 93-degree July heat as Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" thrums through the patio speakers, Tony Fadell takes a sip of nonalcoholic beer and sinks far...
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Korea ps Its Robots Game
In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids' imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination...
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Cs50 Logs Record-Breaking Enrollment Numbers
Nearly 12 percent of Harvard College is enrolled in a single course, according to data released by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s Office on Wednesday...
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Making Drones More Customizable
Airware has developed a standard platform for unmanned aerial vehicles that could help manufacturers easily design and customize drones for different applications...
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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Algorithms Reveal Forecasting Power of Tweets
Researchers at Binghamton University and Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center used 500 million tweets to develop algorithms that can predict an individual's behavior...
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German-Style Training For American Factory Workers
German robotics company Festo AG wants to make American factory workers more tech-savvy.
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.
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Google Is Target of European Backlash on .s. Tech Dominance
A top German official called for Google to be broken up.
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Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away
I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet...
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Shenzhen Trip Report Visiting the World's Manufacturing Ecosystem
Last year, a group of Media Lab students visited Shenzhen with, bunnie, an old friend and my hardware guru.
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The Man Who Will Build Google's Elusive Quantum Computer
John Martinis is one of the world's foremost experts on quantum computing, a growing field of science that aims to process information at super high speeds using...
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Plate Tectonics Found on Europa
If you have got an idea for how to study Europa, then NASA wants to hear from you.
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Nato Agrees Cyber Attack Could Trigger Military Response
NATO leaders agreed on Friday that a large-scale cyber attack on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire U.S.-led alliance, potentially triggering...
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Apple's iPhone 6 First Responders
As Apple prepares to unveil the iPhone 6 on Sept. 9, engineers are toiling in secrecy to make sure everything works properly.
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E-Sports Set Video Gamers Fighting For Real Money in Virtual Contests
A bewitching creature—half woman, half deer—battles a shaman and a sentient tree.
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The Coming Age of the Internet Naturalist
Three years ago, Shaun Winterton was looking at photos of bugs on Flickr.
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Gigabytes Don't Matter Anymore in the Online Storage War
If you still think storing files online is all about who offers the most gigabytes for the lowest price, you weren't there when Jared Leto showed up at BoxWorks...
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Getting a Clear Picture of a Computer Network's Security
Security experts say the only hope of protecting corporate networks from hackers is something the industry calls "defense in depth."
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Google Backs Second Quantum Computing Effort
Scientists can't seem to agree on what a quantum computer is. But the uncertainty hasn't deterred Google from backing a second major effort in the field.
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