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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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AI Hype Creates Confusion and Obscures Benefits, Gartner Says
Market hype and growing interest in artificial intelligence are pushing established software vendors to introduce AI into their product strategy, creating considerable...
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Robot Physical Therapist Helps People Walk Again After a Stroke
A robotic harness controlled by a neural network is helping people regain their mobility after certain neurological injuries.
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Silicon Valley Mostly Quiet in Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress
Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Apple Inc and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance...
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Crazy Smart Summer: Girls Build Robots To Help People
While some middle schoolers spend their summers lounging poolside, others spend time building robots. At the Women in Robotics Summer Youth Program last week, 23...
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Nsa-Funded virtual Cybersecurity Lab to Improve Cloud Networking Security
Mengjun Xie, a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has garnered additional funding from the U.S. National Security Agency to develop a virtual...
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.s. Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream
Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of the Russian cybersecurity software firm that bears his name, had a big American dream.
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Spreading Fake News Becomes Standard Practice For Governments Across the World
Campaigns to manipulate public opinion through false or misleading social media postings have become standard political practice across much of the world, with...
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AI Expert Affirms Musk's Claim: Robots Will Kill Jobs
New York Institute of Technology Professor Kevin LaGrandeur argues that intelligent technology is displacing not only manual labor, but also middle-class jobs and...
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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs
Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk. ...
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High School Girls Learn 'virtuous Hacking' in Computer Science Program
Forty-five high school girls are tackling programming, virtuous hacking, and digital forensics at New York University's Computer Science for Cyber Security program...
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Filling the Science Communication Gap
Two English professors have co-edited a book they hope will make science communication easier for instructors, and their students, to teach and learn.
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The Innovation Dream Team: Opposites Succeed
Two sides of the design thinking coin, both the creative and analytical, are essential to solving problems.
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S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes...
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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Physicists Gain New Understanding of Quantum Cooling Process
New research at the University of Arkansas is helping physicists better understand optomechanical cooling, a process that is expected to find applications in quantum...
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Information Technology: A Digital Genius at Play
The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Build Brain Atlas of Fruit Fly Behavior
A machine-learning program named JAABA has helped scientists create a brain-wide atlas of fruit fly behavior.
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Wimbledon 2017: The Tech Behind the World's Top Tennis Tournament
The Championships at Wimbledon, which consumes some 28 tons of strawberries, 10,000 litres of cream, and 320,000 glasses of Pimm's per year, is notable for its...
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AI and 'enormous Data' Could Make Tech Giants Harder to Topple
Another week, another record-breaking AI research study released by Google—this time with results that are a reminder of a crucial business dynamic of the current...
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Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?
In the months since Donald Trump took office, Washington has been leaking like a sieve.
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