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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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Maker Movement Turns Scientists Into Tinkerers
To do science, scientists need money—and usually a lot of it because specialized equipment and tools don’t come cheap.
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Stanford Scientists Combine Satellite Data, Machine Learning to Map Poverty
Stanford University researchers used machine learning and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify impoverished regions in Africa.
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98 Personal Data Points that Facebook ses to Target Ads to You
Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.
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China, Japan, Cern: Who Will Host the Next Lhc?
It was a triumph for particle physics—and many were keen for a piece of the action.
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Flextime Works Better For Men Than Women, Study Finds
Flextime and having autonomy over working hours impacts men and women differently and may increase the gender pay gap. New research shows that schedule control...
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S Ready to 'hand Over' the Internet's Naming System
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's...
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Space, Climate Change, and the Real Meaning of Theory
I used to be an astronaut, a spacewalker on the International Space Station.
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The Wretched, Endless Cycle of Bitcoin Hacks
It seemed bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was doing all the right things. In the end, that didn’t stop hackers from stealing $65 million.
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Why Facebook Is Really Blocking the Ad Blockers
Ads can seem like the bane of the Internet.
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Developers, Skill-Upgrade Programs, Boost Asia-Pacific Tech Jobs Outlook
There are still plenty of jobs in the Asia-Pacific region for computer scientists and IT specialists, but it's almost a seller's market for software developers...
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No One Wants to Buy Those Stolen Nsa-Linked 'cyberweapons'
When an anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers put up for auction a collection of data it said it stole from the NSA, the group wrote that it would make...
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Bitcoin's Technology Has a Surprising Fan: IBM
Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into...
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Envisioning Bitcoin's Technology at the Heart of Global Finance
A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin will come to occupy a central place...
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The Brave New World of Robots and Lost Jobs
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...
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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...
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Nist's Rolling Wireless Net Helps Improve First-Responder Communications
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) worked with industry partners to integrate commercial technologies into a mobile wireless communications...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else
For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have.
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