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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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New York City Shuts Down Unauthorized Sensors
With little fanfare, urban areas have become overgrown by a tangle of sensors: cameras unobtrusively snapping pictures at traffic lights, microphones secretly triangulating...
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Mobile Revolution Shakes p Silicon Valley
Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets aren't just changing the way we live and work. They are shaking up Silicon Valley's balance of power and splitting up businesses...
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How to Tweet Like a Robot on Mars
When a worried 5-year-old named Timur asked Chris Hadfield in September whether the Voyager 1 satellite—now careening through Deep Space 11 billion miles from Earth...
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How The Cold War And George Orwell Helped Make The Internet What It Is
The story of how the digital age came to be involves a cast of more than 40 people, ranging from a 19th century English countess to California hippies.
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School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent
As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.
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Physicist Turns Smartphones Into Pocket Cosmic Ray Detectors
An app developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can turn an Android smartphone into a high-energy particle detector — a pocket version of a multimillion...
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Drivers, Don't Trade in Your Smartphone For Google Glass . . . Yet
Drivers wearing Google Glass outperformed smartphone users in regaining control of their vehicles after they slammed on their brakes due to a traffic incident,...
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Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...
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New Smartphone App Gives Sight to the Blind
Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...
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The Algorithm that Can Make Fantasy Football Even More Fun
Like many guys from age 13–65, I suffer from LTAMFFT Syndrome.
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Oculus Brings the Virtual Closer to Reality
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.
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Ios 8 Brings Big Boost For Web Programmers
Web programmers rejoice: Apple's new iOS 8 has added support for standards that will let you build better games and more productive websites.
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...
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MIT Invents a Magic Lens That Combines All Your Screens Into a Single Experience
When we need to send a command or a file from our smartphone to our laptop, we do it through menus.
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Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.
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How Main Street Will Pay For Home Depot's Data Breach
Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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Algorithms Reveal Forecasting Power of Tweets
Researchers at Binghamton University and Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center used 500 million tweets to develop algorithms that can predict an individual's behavior...
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