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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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Study's Lesson For Business Leaders: Innovation Is Overrated
A new study of Formula One racing shows that big innovations don't always deliver as much value as smaller, incremental changes.
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pstarts Raid Giants For Talent in Silicon Valley
For the last year, Google's work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns.
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time
You might be at work, but that hardly means you are working.
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'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?
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The Coming Wave of Bionic Hearing Gadgets
In a windowless office on a tiny San Francisco side street, Noah Kraft is making me hear things in a way I’ve never heard them before.
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Palmer Luckey: Making Virtual Reality a Reality
"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...
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Kaspersky Lab: Based In Russia, Doing Cybersecurity In The West
Given Russia's cyber skills, it's not surprising that a Russian entrepreneur, Eugene Kaspersky, runs one of the world's leading companies offering protection from...
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Nasa's Europa Mission Team Joins Forces For the First Time
They're united by a lofty goal—to investigate whether Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell.
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Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away
In the ten years that I’ve been watching him, Larry Page has always wanted to play by his own rules.
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Developers Teach Apple Chinese
Like other smartphone makers, Apple is trying to keep China happy.
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The Cyber-Mechanics Who Protect Your Car from Hackers
A couple of weeks ago, a small team of security researchers gathered near a car parked outside one of their company’s buildings.
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Search For Alien Life Ignites Battle Over Giant Telescope
There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...
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Politics Overshadows U.s. Tech Firms' Hopes For Entering Iran
Iran has the potential to be a boom market for American tech companies.
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Genomics Pioneer Jun Wang on His New AI Venture
Jun Wang is one of China's most famous scientists.
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As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding For Career Change
After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.
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In Silicon Valley, Coders Are Making More Room For Curators
It's been almost a decade since the debut of the Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty for the person or group that could best improve the company’s movie suggestion...
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The Team That Keep a Watchful Eye on the Iss
In a darkened room, deep within the high-security perimeter of Redstone Arsenal, a US army base in Huntsville, Alabama, eight men and women sit behind concave banks...
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Lessons from the Digital Classroom
In four small schools scattered across San Francisco, a data experiment is under way.
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Personal Robots: Artificial Friends with Limited Benefits
If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...
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