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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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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...
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From Army of One to Band of Tweeters
It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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The Hot New Job in Silicon Valley Is Being a Robot's Assistant
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.
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What Excites Ceo Larry Page About Alphabet? Wi-Fi Beaming Balloons
Alphabet, formerly Google, is a Wonka factory of tech projects.
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Researcher Develops Material to Create Sustainable Energy Source
A Florida State University researcher has discovered an artificial material that mimics photosynthesis and potentially creates a sustainable energy source.
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Cold Electronics Help Scientists Spot Elusive 'Ghost' Particles
Nestled inside the massive MicroBooNE detector lie 50 circuit boards packed with custom-built microelectronics designed to operate while immersed in inert liquid...
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Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable
"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs...
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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The Light-Beam Rider
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Relativity, the most beautiful theory in the history of science, and in its honor we should take...
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?
"I like to drive cars," says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, "so this is a little funny."
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On the Road to Ang Vehicles
Berkeley Lab researchers have found a way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel, which could help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG)...
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How Activists Are Forcing the White House to Say Where It Stands on Encryption
A petition calling for President Obama to support strong encryption and "reject any law, policy or mandate" that would undermine digital security reached 100,000...
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Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
Scientists may have discovered a link between key components of the "electron density wave" state and the pseudogap phase in a high-temperature superconductor
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Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...
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Faster Optimization
A general-purpose optimization algorithm described in the winner of the best-student-paper award at the FOCS 2015 symposium promises order-of-magnitude speedups...
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