From ACM Careers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 9, 2018
It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | January 5, 2018
What is Uber? The company's standard answer is that it is a technology company—an app that matches people who want to get somewhere to people who will take them...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 21, 2017
Later today, executives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify about the ways that Russian operatives used...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2017
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | September 25, 2017
Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even ...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 14, 2017
When I saw that Google had introduced a "Classic Papers" section of Google Scholar, its search tool for academic journals, I couldn't help but stroke my chin professorially...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2017
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
In October, when malware called Mirai took over poorly secured webcams and DVRs, and used them to disrupt internet access across the United States, I wondered who...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 1, 2017
More than half the people on the planet still don't have Internet access. But figuring out how to get them online is as much of a political challenge as it is a...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 29, 2016
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 23, 2015
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social publishing site, just 11 years old, is now the dominant force in American media.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | April 29, 2015
Social networks offer an incredible tool for tapping into the collective unconscious, a virtual Jungian arena in which competition might be expected to amplify...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2015
Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 12, 2015