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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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User-Friendly Language For Programming Efficient Simulations
A new programming language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.
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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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Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else
For teenagers who like to sing along with Ariana Grande and Flo Rida, Musical.ly is a must-have.
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Why Save a Computer Virus?
On average, 82,000 new malware threats are created each day.
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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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Nics, a Communication Platform For First Responders, Now Available Worldwide
The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS), a mobile, web-based communication platform for first responders, is now available worldwide, according to the...
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Don't Baby These Kid Hackers
Emmett Brewer is no taller than the lectern on the stage, so he stands to the side of it to deliver his presentation. He's got a Dennis the Menace hairdo and he's...
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Are Performance-Monitoring Wearables an Affront to Workers' Rights?
At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods.
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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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Amateur Astronomers Are Helping Guide Space Pros to Jupiter and Beyond
The United Kingdom is a terrible place to use a telescope, at least if you consider the weather.
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Remembering a Thinker Who Thought About Thinking
The field of educational technology is mourning a visionary whose work was considered 50 years ahead of its time.
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Nsf Commits $35 Million to Improve Scientific Software
The U.S. National Science Foundation will spend $35 million over 5 years to support scientific software development, maintenance, and education.
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This Company Has Built a Profile on Every American Adult
Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America's 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services.
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Apple's New Privacy Technology May Pressure Competitors to Better Protect Our Data
Ten years ago, researchers at Microsoft introduced a breakthrough approach to protecting privacy in the age of big data. Later this year their idea, known as differential...
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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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Apple Offers Big Cash Rewards For Help Finding Security Bugs
Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that...
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