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Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet
Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.
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Beyond the PC: Lenovo's ambitious plan for the future of computing
Lenovo is a leading PC manufacturer, a top-five player in the server market and has recently returned its smartphone group to profit. Here's where the company is going next.
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How iRobot used data science, cloud, and DevOps to design its next-gen smart home robots
iRobot has used its new design, software, and data science strategies to expand into new areas, using an approach to the smart home that is different from its big tech rivals.
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Straight up: How the Kentucky bourbon industry is going high tech
Bourbon is one of the most popular spirits in the world. Some Kentucky distilleries are adding data analytics, automation, IoT sensors, and RFID tags to streamline production.
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Inside the Raspberry Pi: The story of the $35 computer that changed the world
The co-creators of the credit-card-sized board reveal the many challenges they overcame to build the breakthrough machine.
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How self-driving tractors, AI, and precision agriculture will save us from the impending food crisis
Go inside the race to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit planet earth in 2050. See how John Deere and others are working to change the equation before it's too late.
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Agriculture 4.0: How digital farming is revolutionizing the future of food
The next step in feeding the world's rapidly growing population involves self-driving tractors, precision farming, and Internet of Things sensors to quantify agriculture in vast new ways.
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Smart farming: How IoT, robotics, and AI are tackling one of the biggest problems of the century
It's still early days for precision agriculture, but two UK-based projects are proving the feasibility and value of the concept.
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America's coolest company: How Big Ass Fans went from cooling cows to a multinational tech powerhouse
Big Ass Fans leveraged a quality product, Internet of Things technology, strong branding, and a unique corporate culture to fill a worldwide need for cooler air.
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NASA's unsung heroes: The Apollo coders who put men on the moon
Learn how pioneering software engineers helped NASA launch astronauts into space, and bring them back again--pushing the boundaries of technology as they did it.
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Can Russian hackers be stopped? Here's why it might take 20 years
Deterring hackers is almost impossible when the rewards are so great and the risks are so low. Can anything stop them?
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The new commute: How driverless cars, hyperloop, and drones will change our travel plans
Transportation is about to get a technology-driven reboot. The details are still taking shape, but future transport systems will certainly be connected, data-driven and highly automated.
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Exomedicine arrives: How labs in space could pave the way for healthcare breakthroughs on Earth
Space Tango's space-as-a-service model is running microgravity experiments on the International Space Station. Learn how they could power new innovations in medicine.
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How Sephora is leveraging AR and AI to transform retail and help customers buy cosmetics
Beauty retailer Sephora followed customer technology trends to command the cosmetic industry worldwide. Here's an inside look at its successful digital transformation.
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Startup Republic: How France reinvented itself for the 21st century by wooing entrepreneurs to Paris
The City of Light is cutting through a long tradition of government bureaucracy to make it easy for global companies to launch in France. TechRepublic went inside the phenomenon.
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