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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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U.S. Must Up Its Game or Risk Being Surpassed in Supercomputing Race
A new report urges U.S. policymakers to take decisive steps to ensure the United States continues to be a world leader in high-performance computing. Otherwise,...
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Could Aluminum Nitride Be Engineered to Produce Quantum Bits?
Using supercomputer simulations at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, researchers have identified aluminum nitride as a possible candidate...
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on February 17 but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...
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A Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy
The timing of key press input on a touchscreen is unpredictable, and performance improves when the timing is made more predictable.
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Retweeting May Overload Your Brain
Research finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen. Worse...
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Statheads Are the Best Free Agent Bargains in Baseball
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...
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Biology May Hold Key to Better Computer Memory
Researchers at Boise State University are looking for a better way to store digital information using nucleic acid memory.
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Researchers Develop Magnifying Smartphone Screen Application For Visually Impaired
Researchers have designed a technology intended to improve the built-in zoom feature of smartphones, which many low-vision users find difficult to use due to a...
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...
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The Quiet Revolutionary: How the Co-Discovery of CRISPR Explosively Changed Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Life
Emmanuelle Charpentier's office is bare, save for her computer.
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Can Technology Help Teach Literacy in Poor Communities?
A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...
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Measuring Happiness on Social Media
University of Iowa computer scientists found that Twitter users' feelings of long-term happiness and satisfaction with their lives remained steady over time, consistent...
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The Rise of China's Millionaire Research Scientists
The Chinese government's push to put science and technology at the forefront of the nation's development is creating new breed of highly-paid scientific academics...
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Robots Can Lift, Drive, and Chat, But Are They Safe and Trustworthy?
MIT Professor Emeritus Thomas B. Sheridan says the time is ripe for human factors researchers to contribute scientific insights to tackle the many challenges of...
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.
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The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents
Researchers from Colorado State University used non-polarized light to produce a spin voltage — a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual...
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Researchers Explain How Stereotypes Keep Girls Out of Computer Science Classes
Stereotypes are a powerful force driving girls away from STEM fields. Even though stereotypes are often inaccurate, children absorb them at an early age and are...
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.
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Outwitting Poachers With Artificial Intelligence
Researchers are using artificial intelligence and game theory to solve wildlife poaching, illegal logging, and other problems worldwide.
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