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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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Teaching Programming to Preschoolers
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory are developing a system that enables young children to program interactive robots by affixing stickers to laminated sheets...
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Developers Wrestle with Making 'killer App' For Apple Watch
Software developers say it will not be easy to come up with a "killer app" for Apple Inc's Watch—few have seen the product and the software is still in test mode...
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Detecting Deception Online Is Not So Easy, Professor Says
Phishing scams are so prevalent that some businesses have taken action by sending out fake phishing emails and educating employees who respond.
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Computer Model Explains How Brain Learns to Categorize
New York University researchers have devised a computer model to explain how a neural circuit learns to classify sensory stimuli into discrete categories.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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Obama Seeks to Boost Training For High-Tech Jobs
President Barack Obama is embarking on a 20-city drive to intensify job-specific training in the high-tech sector. The administration aims to place 50,000 graduates...
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If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
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Patented Process Builds Better Semiconductors, Improves Electronic Devices
Kansas State University chemical engineer Jim Edgar has received a patent for a process that may improve electronic devices and benefit manufacturers of semiconductor...
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Finger-Mounted Reading Device for the Blind
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory have built a prototype of a finger-mounted device with a built-in camera that converts written text into audio for visually...
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...
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Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn't seem particularly ambitious.
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Here's What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official
Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened?
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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.
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Sensor Array Changes the Data Collection Game
Researchers can add their own mix of sensors and programs to Argonne National Laboratory's Waggle smart sensor platform to collect data in real time.
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CIA to Make Sweeping Changes, Focus More on Cyber Ops: Agency Chief
The Central Intelligence Agency is launching one of the biggest reorganizations in its history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating...
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.
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Dusting For Cyber Fingerprints: sing Coding Style to Identify Anonymous Programmers
Using layout, lexical, and syntactic features of computer code, experts can identify the person who created a strain of malware the same way police would use...
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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin
In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline.
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Twenty-Five Teams to Participate in DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
Twenty-five teams from the international robotics community will compete for $3.5 million in prizes in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, a test of capabilities ...
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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