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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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Study Gauges Value of Technology in Schools
With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards, and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it.
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Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most
Every now and then, someone asks "Who’ll be the Google of big data?"
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How Two Sound Geeks Created Facebook's Friendly 'ping' Tone
About two weeks ago, a question popped up on Quora asking: "How much research has gone into developing the Facebook 'ping' sound?"
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...
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'chinese Google' nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains
Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...
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Spies Like s: How We All Helped Build Prism
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.
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Hands-Free Talking and Texting Are Unsafe, Report Finds
Using hands-free devices to talk, text, or send e-mail while driving is distracting and risky, says a new University of Utah study issued by the AAA Foundation...
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How the .s. ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...
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Hacking the Drone War's Secret History
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...
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As Data Floods In, Massive Open Online Courses Evolve
In 2012, education startups attracted millions of students—and a surge of interest from universities and the media—by offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs...
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Making Sense of Patterns in the Twitterverse
The winner of the best paper award at IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics 2013 conference this month described a powerful digital system capable of analyzing...
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How You and I Could Become Nodes in the Internet of Things
Ever wonder what the network infrastructure of the future will be? Try looking in the mirror.
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Wisee ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.
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How a 16-Year-Old Won a Scholarship to Apple's Wwdc
A 16-year-old programmer named Ash Bhat is attending Apple's WWDC next week for free. How? He created an iOS app that earned him one of 150 scholarships.
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In China, an Empire Built By Aping Apple
China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs.
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As Facebook Grows p, Grand Ambitions Get Reality Check
Facebook, which once seemed poised to take over the Internet, is showing its limitations: a host of newer services are gaining ground among trend-setting youth;...
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...
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How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn.
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The Startup Factory Behind the Hit Game 'Dots'
The failed-startup story is familiar by now.
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Is Coding the New Second Language?
It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.
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