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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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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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p to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car or Smartphone
It takes a driver up to 27 seconds to regain full attention after issuing voice commands to a smartphone or car infotainment system while driving, University of...
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You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty...
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...
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How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won
Earlier this month the European Union's top court struck down a major trade agreement that thousands of companies use to transfer Europeans' personal data to the...
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social...
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Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—and Invented Software Itself
Margaret Hamilton wasn't supposed to invent the modern concept of software and land men on the moon.
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.
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New California Law Extends Privacy Rights to Electronic Data
California now requires police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's...
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Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever
It was after 11 p.m. on March 30, 2013, when the Alaska Department of Public Safety helicopter lifted off near Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, after rescuing a stranded...
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A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain
When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...
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Start-ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children
How will Disney use technology to captivate the children of the future?
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Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision
A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.
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Enhancing Movement With Computational Models
MIT Ph.D. student David Hill maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices.
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Scouring the Web to Make New Words 'lookupable'
A couple of weeks ago, two of my New York Times colleagues chronicled digital culture trends that are so newish and niche-y that conventional English dictionaries...
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Warning Labels Should Be Introduced to Prevent Digital Addiction
Warning labels and messages should be introduced on digital devices to encourage responsible usage and prevent digital addiction, according to Bournemouth University...
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What's Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar
When Jeff Cohen was getting ready to meet his OkCupid date for drinks in Manhattan, he started to have second thoughts as he reread the glaring grammatical error...
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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