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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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Replications, Ridicule and a Recluse: The Controversy Over Ngago Gene-Editing Intensifies
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.
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Ibm's Watson Won Jeopardy, But Can It Win Business from Banks?
International Business Machines Corp is in an unusual fix in telling big U.S. banks they can use its Watson software of Jeopardy-winning fame as a cost-saving solution...
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It's About to Get a Lot Easier For Apps to Talk to Each Other
IFTTT is a handy way of automating your life. You can use the service—the acronym means "if this, then that"—to, say, upload your Instagram photos to Dropbox, save...
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Marconi Forged Today's Interconnected World of Communication
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Smarter Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways For Nanotechnology
Brookhaven Lab scientists have discovered a way to create nanoscale structures that snap together in complex patterns with unprecedented efficiency.
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.
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Toward Practical Quantum Computers
Built-in optics could enable chips that use trapped ions as quantum bits.
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Making a One-Way Street For Electricity
Scientists show how a buckyball buffer helps conduct electricity in only one direction, vital for molecule-sized circuits.
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Latest to Quit Google's Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist
A roboticist and crucial member of the team that created Google's self-driving car is leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures by important technologists...
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Cornell Scientists Convert Carbon Dioxide, Create Electricity
Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a novel method for capturing greenhouse gas and converting it into carbon-rich compounds while also producing electrical...
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Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers Can Fix Their Own Flaws
It might be the least spectacular show to ever grace a Las Vegas stage.
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A New Family Member for 2-D Nanomaterials
A team of researchers has devised a new method to grow atomically thin films of materials known as hybrid perovskites, a possible successor to silicon and alternative...
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The Hr Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot
The next time you’re hired, you might find yourself getting information about payroll, vacations, and expenses by talking to a chatbot instead of consulting a handbook...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a...
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Carbon Nanotube 'stitches' Strengthen Composites
A method to reinforce composite materials could help make airplane frames lighter, more damage-resistant.
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Patented Bioelectrodes Have Electrifying Taste For Waste
New research at Michigan State University shows how Geobacter bacteria grow as films on electrodes and generate electricity — a process that's ready to be scaled...
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Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons
A team of researchers from China and Japan have devised a way to make monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges in the lab.
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Plumbing the Possibilities of 'Seeing Around Corners'
Researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to optimize a camera capable of snapping pictures around corners...
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Virtual Reality: The Hype, the Problems and the Promise
I'm sitting in the dark. It's pitch black, apart from a circular spot of light on the wall in front of me.
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