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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
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2015
MIT computer science Ph.D. students Elena Glassman, Neha Narula, and Jean Yang unexpectedly found themselves demonstrating some of the challenges women face in...Wired From ACM TechNews | December 29, 2014
Silicon Valley's gender problem is no longer a dirty little secret. Tech firms recognize their poor gender diversity and have sworn to do better. And yet, one...Wired From ACM Careers | October 27, 2014
The proportion of programmers in India who are women is at least 30 percent. In the United States it's 21 percent. Something about the culture of the Indian educational...Wired From ACM Careers | August 28, 2014
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.Wired From ACM Careers | August 27, 2014
Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...Wired From ACM Careers | August 8, 2014
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.Wired From ACM News | August 1, 2014
Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown...Wired From ACM Careers | July 11, 2014
Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement...Wired From ACM News | June 24, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014