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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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Hail to the Geeks
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...
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Teach Your Robot Well
A new study by Georgia Tech's Maya Cakmak and Andrea Thomaz identifies the types of questions a robot can ask during a learning interaction that are most likely...
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An App That Helps You Cozy p to Strangers
Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...
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What Geography Can Teach S About Basketball
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...
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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...
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Building Blocks: Awesome Lego Science Models
There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.
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App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students
An app created by a Vanderbilt graduate student converts an Android tablet computer into a powerful tool for teaching math to visually impaired students.
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Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers
Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.
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New Controller Tugs at Thumb Tips to Enhance Video Gaming
University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips...
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...
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Computer Software Responds to Students' Frustration and Boredom
Computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states — including frustration and boredom — has been developed by researchers from...
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Video: Touring the Futuristic R&d Lab Behind Apple's Siri
SRI in Menlo Park, California, has spawned everything from the computer mouse to ultrasound technology to the Siri "personal assistant" platform in the new iPhones...
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Windows Without Windows
Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...
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What Should Apple Do with Its Cash?
Apple's soaring with the market Tuesday, topping $530 per share. Not only is Apple soaring in the stock market, the company is also sitting on $98 billion in cash—a...
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Pwnium: Rewards For Exploits
This year at the CanSecWest security conference, we will once again sponsor rewards for Google Chrome exploits. This complements and extends our Chromium Security...
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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Building Responsive Web Sites: How to Handle Navigation Menus
The Web is moving rapidly away from its fixed-layout past into what it arguably should have been all along—a flexible medium that adapts to any screen size.
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Social Media in 2012 Elections Will Make 2008 Look Like the Digital Dark Ages
Forget all the jibber-jabber in this presidential campaign about policy and strategy. The highlight for me of this election cycle came when the Obama campaign released...
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Over-the-Air Tv Catches Second Wind, Aided By Web
It's cool to have rabbit ears again.
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Metavana's Minh Duong-Van Is an Unorthodox Tamer of Chaos
Minh Duong-van sees chaos wherever he looks. Maybe you do, too, but Minh is different because he actually understands how to tease order out of the mess and from...
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Honolulu, HI, United States