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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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Astronomers Begin Building Super Telescope to See Dawn of the niverse
The biggest and baddest telescope in the world stands atop a volcanic peak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
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The Internet Lives in a Huge Hotel in Manhattan
There is no shortage of cool stuff to see on the Internet, but the Internet itself—the networks and servers and cables tying it all together—is pretty mundane....
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The Digital Revolution in Higher Education Has Already Happened. No One Noticed.
The digital revolution in higher education has happened.
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National Labs Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer Development
Three U.S. national laboratories are working together to solve some of the world's most challenging problems by ensuring that the U.S. scientific community has...
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The Nsa School: How the Intelligence Community Gets Smarter, Secretly
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."
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To Study the Brain, a Doctor Puts Himself Under the Knife
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data.
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...
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The Significance of an MIT Drone Weaving Around Tree Branches at 30 Mph
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.
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Inside the Economics of Hacking
Imagine getting $1 million for finding a security weakness in a mobile operating system.
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Troubled Billion-Euro Brain Project Secures Another Three Years' Funding
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...
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Tackling the Large Hadron Collider's Big Data Challenge
Argonne physicists are using the Mira supercomputer to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer, shedding...
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Synthetic Biology Lures Silicon Valley Investors
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...
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The Hot New Job in Silicon Valley Is Being a Robot's Assistant
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.
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What Excites Ceo Larry Page About Alphabet? Wi-Fi Beaming Balloons
Alphabet, formerly Google, is a Wonka factory of tech projects.
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Programmers Are a Tiny Bit Introverted, but Otherwise Agreeable
"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs...
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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Apple's Deep Learning Curve
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
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Speeding Up Extreme Big Brain Data Analysis
An interactive software tool lets brain researchers explore large-scale, high-res imaging to better understand connections in the brain.
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Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?
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