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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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For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2014
Google rocked the smart home market Monday with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2014
Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2013
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important engines powering the rise of the technology industry,...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 15, 2013
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...GigaOm From ACM News | June 13, 2013
For almost three years many of the creators of Sun's Zettabyte File System have been slaving away in a Menlo Park, Calif., building trying to build a chip that...GigaOm From ACM Careers | April 4, 2013
Qualcomm, the chip company that made its fortune in mobile connectivity had big visions beyond its CDMA and cellular radio heritage.GigaOm From ACM Careers | February 27, 2013
Not long after her arrival at Yahoo, new CEO Marissa Mayer started handing out carrots to her new employees, including new smartphones, free food, and other Google...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | February 26, 2013
Admittedly, mobile technology evolves at a very fast pace. But somewhere along the way we seem to have skipped an entire generation of networks.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2013
The popularity of Skype and other IP-based international calling options has continued to take market share away from the international minutes, according to research...GigaOm From ACM Careers | February 13, 2013
Standing out from the crowd of applicants vying to get into Stanford University's Computer Science undergraduate program is no easy task.GigaOm From ACM Careers | February 8, 2013
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...GigaOm From ACM Careers | January 24, 2013
In its quest to figure out how best to build efficient, scalable data centers, the Open Compute Project is looking to students and other independent people for...GigaOm From ACM Careers | January 17, 2013
It's not a surprise when a company with copious resources like Google builds a better iPhone search or mail app. But it’s far more interesting when small development...GigaOm From ACM Careers | January 15, 2013
Virtually any article today about big data inevitably turns to the notion that the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
If you're an agile development pro, especially on the West Coast, Utah, Minnesota, New York or Massachusetts, you're pretty much in the catbird seat when comes...GigaOm From ACM Careers | December 18, 2012
Four years ago developer Matt Biddulph jokingly coined "Silicon Roundabout" as a description of East London's small but growing startup scene—now it's become the...GigaOm From ACM Careers | December 11, 2012