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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 New Digital Playbook For Learning Mandarin Chinese
David Moser, the academic director at CET Beijing Chinese Studies, remembers the bad old days of Mandarin-learning methodology in the 1980s and 1990s.
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A Digital Copy of the niverse, Encrypted
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...
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Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library For World's Software Code
In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company.
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Intel's Galileo Aims X86 Chips at Arduino Hardware Hackers
Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...
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Fbi: Silk Road Mastermind Couldn't Even Keep Himself Anonymous Online
What will get you in the end is sloppy opsec.
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Imagining Data Without Division
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...
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Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook
If creationists in Texas get their way, high-school students throughout the U.S. could soon be reading biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific...
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Students Are 'hacking' Their School-Issued Ipads: Good For Them
Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...
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Researchers to Build Wildfire Cyberinfrastructure
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to build an cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time...
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Scientists Must Spearhead Ethical se of Big Data
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional...
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.
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Mooc or Moor: Is Research the Next Frontier For Online Education?
A team from UC San Diego is launching a new course on the Coursera online learning network that breaks ground by adding a substantial research component.
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Kansas Lawsuit: Science Education Standards Violate Religious Freedom
The battle over the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) has flared up in a new state—Kansas.
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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In Search of Planetary Intelligence
It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, "I think it would be a good idea."
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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Watch Out, Wall Street: Report Says Tech Is Now Nyc's Second-Largest Sector
New York City's economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media.
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When Google Brainstorms, Online World Shudders
Is Google about to do to online privacy what body scanners did to airline travelers?
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Nsa Job Post For 'civil Liberties & Privacy Officer' Goes Live
The U.S. National Security Agency has posted an ad for a "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer," offering critics of the NSA a well-nigh irresistible chance to play...
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