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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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What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...CNET From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
I was recently having lunch at a lovely and only slightly overpriced cafe overlooking the Pacific in the historic resort region of Kailua-Kona on the dry side of...CNET From ACM News | February 19, 2014
Startups whose products challenge the incumbents need to prepare not just for competition but for dirty tricks.CNET From ACM Careers | December 11, 2013
The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.CNET From ACM News | December 9, 2013
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...CNET From ACM News | November 15, 2013
Like a story straight out of the universe of Franz Kafka, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison found himself before a judge in Washington, representing himself against...CNET From ACM Opinion | October 29, 2013
Three years ago, a Silicon Valley robotics startup called Willow Garage shook up the industry by offering one of the first robots capable of a wide range of different...CNET From ACM Careers | October 21, 2013
Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...CNET From ACM Careers | October 3, 2013
In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.CNET From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2013
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...CNET From ACM News | September 30, 2013
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.CNET From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2013
The U.S. National Security Agency has posted an ad for a "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer," offering critics of the NSA a well-nigh irresistible chance to play...CNET From ACM Careers | September 27, 2013
Hopes of alien life on Mars were dashed Thursday when a paper published in the journal Scienceconcluded that the Curiosity rover has yet to find any methane gas...CNET From ACM Opinion | September 23, 2013
I'm trying to put into words how difficult a situation it is attempting to summarize my thoughts on a game that I've only been playing for two weeks when I know...CNET From ACM Opinion | September 16, 2013