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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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I was shaking as I shouldered the rifle and peered through the scope at the small steel target 100 yards downrange.Wired From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2013
Tesco—the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain—uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff.Wired From ACM Careers | February 22, 2013
When Kristian Kielhofner first heard that his company's new servers were crashing last summer, he worried that he might be facing a product recall.Wired From ACM Careers | February 8, 2013
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.Wired From ACM News | February 6, 2013
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don't really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check in to the restaurants and shops...Wired From ACM Careers | January 28, 2013
In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with...Wired From ACM Careers | January 3, 2013
Competition in automotive technology has long been about who's got the most horsepower, the best towing capacity or the fastest acceleration. These days, though...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2012
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.Wired From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.Wired From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks...Wired From ACM Careers | November 9, 2012
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.Wired From ACM Careers | September 28, 2012
One of the reasons Google and VMware have been so successful over the past decade, says Eric Brewer, is that both companies managed to snatch some of the world's...Wired From ACM Careers | August 29, 2012
As space geeks watched nervously to see if NASA's Curiosity rover would land safely on Mars, many found themselves wondering, "Hey, who's that cool dude with the...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 10, 2012
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 10, 2012
For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2012
The Pentagon doesn't have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the U.S. Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and...Wired From ACM Careers | June 15, 2012
When Apple posted a job listing last week for a "Computer Vision specialist," the tech-obsessed echo chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be...Wired From ACM News | April 23, 2012
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...Wired From ACM News | April 19, 2012