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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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Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are...
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The Myths and Reality About Interstellar Travel
Science fiction writers and moviemakers have shown us countless visions of humanity spread out across the Universe, so you might be forgiven for thinking that we've...
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The Computer Voting Revolution Is Already Crappy, Buggy, and Obsolete
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...
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Why Big Pharma Wants to Collect 2 Million Genomes
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...
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Iphone Exploit Bounty Surges to an Eye-Popping $1.5 Million
A controversial broker of security exploits is offering $1.5 million (£1.2 million) for attacks that work against fully patched iPhones and iPads, a bounty that's...
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Pentagon's 5,000-Strong Cyber Force Passes Key Operational Step
A 5,000-person Pentagon force created to bolster military computer networks and initiate cyber attacks against terror groups should be ready to carry out its mission...
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Despite the Hype Over Gene Therapy, Few Drugs Are Close to Approval
Most experts in the medical field will tell you that gene therapy has finally come of age, but the numbers tell a different story.
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Baseball Was Way Easier to Predict in 2016, Except For Fly Balls
Heading into the final week of the regular season, the MLB playoff picture is almost settled.
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Why Data Is the New Coal
"Is data the new oil?" asked proponents of big data back in 2012 in Forbes magazine. By 2016, and the rise of big data's turbo-powered cousin deep learning, westated Fortune...
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Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don't They?
The court filings paint a grisly picture: As Ashley Kubiak sped down a Texas highway in her Dodge Ram truck, she checked her iPhone for messages.
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Moscow Drops Microsoft on Putin's Call For Self-Sufficiency
Moscow city will replace Microsoft Corp. programs with domestic software on thousands of computers in answer to President Vladimir Putin’s call for Russia's authorities...
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Meeting Cellebrite Israel's Master Phone Crackers
Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.
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The Wikipedia Bots that Are Engaged in Spats that Never End
Is. Isn't. Is. Isn’t. Is. Isn't.
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Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple's virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond...
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Titanic Clash Over Crispr Patents Turns Ugly
Geneticist George Church has pioneered methods for sequencing and altering genomes.
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For the Debaters: What Shall We Do About the Tech Careening Our Way?
Here's a question I’m hoping comes up at Monday's presidential debate: Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump, what would you do about self-driving trucks?
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Reconfigurable Chaos-Based Microchips Offer Possible Solution to Moore's Law
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits that enable computer chips to perform multiple functions...
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Jpl Seeks Robotic Spacecraft Development For Asteroid Redirect Mission
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has issued a request for proposal (RFP) seeking design, development and build of the robotic spacecraft...
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Big Step For Quantum Teleportation Won't Bring S Any Closer to Star Trek. Here's Why
Two teams have set new distance records for quantum teleportation: using the weirdness of quantum mechanics to instantly transfer the condition or "state" of one...
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Europe Proposes Copyright Reform to Help Scientists Mine Research Papers
The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers—by freeing the computer...
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