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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
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2015
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.The Atlantic From ACM News | May 6, 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
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
On a Friday night in New York City you can find just about anything. And this past Friday about 130 hackers gathered in the Hayden Planetarium to participate in...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | November 10, 2014
As far as intelligence agencies go, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has remained relatively low profile—attracting neither the intrigue of, say, the...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 20, 2014
No one knows exactly how many personal drones are buzzing through our skies, but Chris Anderson, the longtime editor of Wired magazine who now heads a drone manufacturer...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 17, 2014
When a worried 5-year-old named Timur asked Chris Hadfield in September whether the Voyager 1 satellite—now careening through Deep Space 11 billion miles from Earth...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 7, 2014
On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | September 24, 2014
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 21, 2014
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 21, 2014