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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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Who's Using Your Data?
Researchers at MIT are developing a protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability" (HTTPA) which will automatically monitor the transmission of private data and...
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Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...
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Analog Engineers: Too Few or Too Many?
After years spent encouraging engineering students to focus on software and digital electronics, some people say the day of reckoning appears to be drawing near...
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With 'the Machine,' Hp May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
If Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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Grit Better Than Gre at Predicting Success in Stem Fields
Selecting graduate students into STEM fields based on an assessment of their character rather than relying heavily on GRE test scores would significantly improve...
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Computer Program Aims to Teach Itself Everything About Anything
Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have created a fully automated computer program that...
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Tiny Startup Completely Reinvents How We se Touchscreens
If you want a reminder of how far technology has come in the last decade, check out the YouTube clip of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone to a room full of...
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New Technology Aims to Rid World Cup of 'ghost Goals'
In 1966, British soccer legend Geoff Hurst booted a right-foot shot against Germany in the World Cup championship game.
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Vermeer's Paintings Might Be 350-Year-Old Color Photographs
I was sitting in the bathtub in 2008 when I thought of a simple way Johannes Vermeer (Girl with a Pearl Earring) might have painted his photorealistic pictures...
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Researchers Design Circuits Capable of Functioning at Extreme Temperatures
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at high temperatures and which could improve other devices which must...
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Ambitious Plans For Brain Project Unveiled
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...
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How to se Tech Like a Teenager
Enough with complaining that young people these days are addicted to their phones. The question you should be asking is: What do they know that you don't?
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New Study Finds Internet Not Responsible For Dying Newspapers
Maybe the Internet didn't kill the traditional newspaper after all. A recently-published study finds that blaming the Internet for the decline of newspapers is...
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Guarding Against 'Carmageddon' Cyberattacks
The potential value of turning U.S. freeways into "smart transportation systems" is enormous. But they have a worrisome downside: They are vulnerable to cyberattacks...
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Nasa Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected
NASA has selected 12 proposals, including three from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced...
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11 Amazing Images from High-Powered Microscopes
Thanks to high-powered microscopes we’re able to see life in incredible detail.
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Researchers Create Nanoparticle Thin Films That Self-Assemble in One Minute
Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have devised a technique whereby self-assembling nanoparticle arrays can form a highly ordered thin film...
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'conjurers' Head to Computer Programming Contest Finals
What do you get when you combine three students, one computer, five hours, and one problem set? For three University of Chicago students, it's a chance to compete...
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So Far, Big Data Is Small Potatoes
Is Big Data going to revolutionize science and help us make a better world? Not based on what it's done so far.
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