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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 17, 2018
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 10, 2018
Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, the US Supreme Court came close to banning software patents.
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 22, 2018
A dramatic increase in computing power helps explain the dramatic increase in hurricane forecast accuracy over the past 20 years.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | May 10, 2018
Last week, Amazon announced a change to an Amazon Web Service designed specifically to end the use of domain fronting—the exploitation of a content delivery network's...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | May 4, 2018
With all the controversy, scrutiny, and international regulation randomized video game loot boxes are facing these days, you might think the practice of charging...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | May 3, 2018
Army researchers have discovered what experienced information security teams already know: actual human interaction isn't a key to success when you already know...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | April 30, 2018
On April 13, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom launched the largest barrage of cruise missiles since the opening of the Gulf War.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | April 19, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 28, 2018
The Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Development Program (JNLWD) is closing in on a directed energy weapon that can literally tell people to go...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | March 22, 2018
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 14, 2018
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has put his money into many passion pursuits. Underwater archaeology—specifically, finding ships sunk during World War...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | March 7, 2018
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 22, 2018
Sketching out rough ideas—traditionally on the back of a napkin in the US, backs of envelopes being preferred in the UK—is a common and important part of the design...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | January 25, 2018
Wow, that 2017, though. Quite a year. Let's grab a Juicero and take a moment to reflect on the utter dumpster fires that we've witnessed over the past 12 months...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | December 29, 2017
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 18, 2017
Microsoft launched a preview version of a new programming language for quantum computing called Q#. The industry giant also launched a quantum simulator that developers...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 13, 2017
The skyrocketing value of Bitcoin is leading to soaring energy consumption. According to one widely cited website that tracks the subject, the Bitcoin network is...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 6, 2017
A 60-year-old electrician in Perth, Western Australia had his termination upheld by a labor grievance commission when it was determined he had been abusing his...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | November 30, 2017