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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2012
There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...GigaOm From ACM Careers | November 5, 2012
Ask a group of data scientists the toughest part of their job, and many will probably tell you–it's not the math but the work required to turn raw data into something...GigaOm From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
It's no secret that more and more content is being consumed on mobile devices. While this has been a source of stress for some web publishers like Facebook, YouTube...GigaOm From ACM Careers | September 21, 2012