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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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It may not seem hard to plug a cord into the wall to charge your mobile phone or tablet. Nonetheless, a number of companies are trying to figure out how to save...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 7, 2014
Cyber security researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight...Reuters From ACM News | August 6, 2014
The scene in Blade Runner is famous: taking a grainy photo, Rick Deckard zooms, enhances and moves around corners just as you would a 3D space.CNET From ACM News | August 6, 2014
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?Nature From ACM News | August 5, 2014
After 10 years and four billion miles, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will arrive at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close...The New York Times From ACM News | August 5, 2014
Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects—digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars.NPR From ACM News | August 5, 2014
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet...Nature From ACM Careers | August 5, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | August 1, 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
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...ITworld From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
Keith Alexander, the recently retired director of the National Security Agency, left many in Washington slack-jawed when it was reported that he might charge companies...Foreign Policy From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
Following extensive in-orbit commissioning and several unexpected challenges, ESA's billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is now ready to begin its science mission.European Space Agency From ACM News | July 30, 2014
Video gaming differentiates itself from the older forms of escapism—literature, theatre, film, television—with interactivity.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 29, 2014
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 29, 2014
In the early morning hours of last Sept. 25, a stocky young man bolted the Bora Bora Lounge in Highbridge, the Bronx, with a gun in his hand and squeezed off seven...The New York Daily News From ACM News | July 28, 2014