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Livermore, CA, United States
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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever
Minutes before the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics trot onto the field during an overcast May afternoon, A's bullpen coach Scott Emerson strides along the...
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.
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China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece
Hip-hop dancers, military marchers and daredevils in winged suits are bringing China's Internet titans into the world of virtual reality.
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How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor
After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and...
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Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead
Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.
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At Attention, Molecules!
Research on the assembly of molecules in an electrically charged fluid may help create quicker, more responsive touch screens, among other applications.
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What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?
Chatbots! They're all the rage: Kik has them, Facebook wants them, and it seems like every computer coder wants to make them. But what are they? And why is every...
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All the Food That's Fit to Print
The recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.
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3-D Printing 101
It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.
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Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News
There's an old saying that you shouldn't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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Five-Fingered Robot Hand Learns to Get a Grip on Its Own
A University of Washington team of computer scientists and engineers has built a robotic hand that can perform dexterous manipulation and also learn from its own...
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Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.
Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...
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Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...
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Custom Technology Allow Computers to Train Service Dogs More Efficiently
North Carolina State University researchers have developed and used a customized suite of technologies that allows a computer to train a dog autonomously, with...
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...
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A Theory Explains Why Gaming on Touchscreens Is Clumsy
The timing of key press input on a touchscreen is unpredictable, and performance improves when the timing is made more predictable.
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Retweeting May Overload Your Brain
Research finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen. Worse...
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