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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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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...
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Maths Whizz Solves a Master's Riddle
A mathematical puzzle that resisted solution for more than 80 years — including computerized attempts to crack it — seems to have yielded to a single mathematician...
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Research Finds Automated Voice Imitation Can Fool Humans and Machines
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found that automated and human verification for voice-based user authentication systems are vulnerable to...
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Learning Language By Playing Games
MIT researchers have developed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works. The system...
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Machine Unlearning: How Can Information Be 'forgotten' in the Age of Viral Data Spread?
Building in mechanisms to enable computer systems to forget data when users request it was the focus of a recent paper by Columbia University researchers Yinzhi...
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se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...
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Protecting Identities in a Sea of Big Data
Recent studies have shown that statistics generated by genomic studies do not completely conceal their participants' identities. Xintao Wu, a computer scientist...
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Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk
The US military has long taken the role of traffic cop in space: monitoring satellites, tracking debris and, in recent years, warning satellite operators and foreign...
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Why Do Infants Smile? Researchers se Robots to Find an Answer
A team of computer scientists, roboticists, and developmental psychologists confirm what most parents already suspect: babies smile with a purpose — to make the...
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Why the Next Steve Jobs Will Be a Woman
More women than ever before are cracking the ranks of the United States' top entrepreneurs, indicating that the next iconic tech entrepreneur could be a woman.
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Why IT Budgets Are Up But Hiring is Down
The latest quarterly "Reality Check" survey from TEKsystems suggests that IT budgets are on the rise, but hiring expectations are significantly lower than they...
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Digital Textbook Analytics Can Predict Student Outcomes
Reynol Junco, associate professor in Iowa State University's School of Education, says digital textbooks can provide real-time analytics to help faculty assess...
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Why Europe Isn't Creating Any Googles or Facebooks
Micha Benoliel grew up in France and launched his first technology startup there, but he never forgot the atmosphere of adventure and optimism in San Francisco,...
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Tools Aim to Keep Solar-Powered Robots in Action
Iowa State University researchers are developing power-management technologies that would allow land- and air-based robots to monitor solar conditions so they...
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Mind Your Manners, Robot: How Social Cues Influence Human-Robot Interaction
Trust, along with physical qualities and cultural considerations, is an essential factor in the effectiveness of these robotic peacekeepers.
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NSF Grant Will Help Create Machines That Think Like Toddlers
Five-hundred hours of video and 54 million images from over 100 children will inform the design of machine learning models that mimic the toddlers' ability to...
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How to Make Large 2-D Sheets
Researchers have developed a method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.
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Devils Go All In on se of Analytics (a Poker Expert Helps)
Sunny Mehta has been a musician, a professional poker player and an author, and he has worked in finance.
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Age-Old question: Can Commercial Software Succeed in an Open-Source World?
Answer: It depends on how you define success.
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