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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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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
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
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...CNET From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.CNET From ACM News | June 20, 2013
It's early April, and there's just over two months before Pixar's newest film, "Monsters University," hits theaters.CNET From ACM Careers | June 20, 2013
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...CNET From ACM News | May 29, 2013
The interesting thing about Bitcoin isn't what it is today. What's interesting is that this experiment is turning into a serious proving ground for the idea of...CNET From ACM Opinion | April 30, 2013
In the common retelling of Apple's history, it was Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's second computer, the Apple II, that launched their fledgling company toward stratospheric...CNET From ACM Careers | April 4, 2013
Google announced that it is throwing two hackathons for developers to get to know and work on its Google Glass project. The people allowed to participate in the...CNET From ACM Careers | January 16, 2013
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...CNET From ACM News | October 22, 2012
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...CNET From ACM Careers | February 17, 2012