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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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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the ltimate AI Brain
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field...
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'Survival of the Fittest' Now Applies to Computers
Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" originally referred to natural selection in biological systems, but new research from Brookhaven National Laboratory...
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Intel Tries to Secure Its Footing Beyond Pcs
For the last several months, Andy Bryant, the chairman of Intel, has been trying to put steel in the backs of the company's employees.
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How Pixar sed Moore's Law to Predict the Future
Whether you call it a data-driven prediction or think of it as a self-fulfilling prophecy, Moore's Law has been going strong.
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Researchers Create Novel Optical Fibers
Researchers at UW-Milwaukee have found a novel way to propagate multiple beams of light in a single strand of optical fiber. The discovery could increase the...
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Hacker Says Phone App Could Hijack Plane
Could this be the deadliest smartphone app ever?
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How Technology Is Slowly Developing Its Sense of Smell
Last week I attended what was, I think it is fair to say, the oddest conference I have been to yet. It was the first world congress of the Digital Olfaction Society...
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Nasa Associate Administrator on Asteroid Initiative
"The mission to find, capture and redirect an asteroid robotically, and then visit it with astronauts to study it and return samples takes advantage of expertise...
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Redesigned Material Could Lead to Lighter, Faster Electronics
Chemists at Ohio State University have developed the technology for making a one-atom-thick sheet of germanium, and found that it conducts electrons more than...
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Mars in a Month? Hook p the Fusion Drive
Researchers at the University of Washington are working on a fusion-powered spacecraft that could theoretically cut down the time it takes for interplanetary voyages...
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'transient Electronics' Disappear When No Longer Needed
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have made key advances toward practical uses of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be...
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This Material Will Power the Future—If Somebody Can Profit From It
It was a Friday evening at the University of Manchester and scientists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov were conducting the sort of playful experiment for which...
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3-D Cooling Could Improve Heat Dissipation in High-Powered Chips
Researchers at Georgia Tech have won a three-year, $2.9 million DARPA contract to develop three-dimensional chip-cooling technology able to handle heat loads...
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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...
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Quantum Dot Commands Light
Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute, led by Professor Edo Waks, have experimentally realized an ultrafast logic gate on a photon, using a semiconductor quantum...
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Researcher Awarded Nsf Grant to Develop Novel Flexible Electronics
Advances in organic semiconductor technology could one day lead to video screens that bend like paper and to electronics that can be sewn into clothing.
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So It Begins: DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
The Pentagon's blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves—while...
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Why It's Time For Our Devices to nderstand What We Mean, Not Just What We Say
It wasn’t just cost and Moore’s law. The graphical user interface—now known as the GUI ("gooey")—is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous...
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