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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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With school districts rushing to buy computers, tablets, digital white boards, and other technology, a new report questions whether the investment is worth it.The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 14, 2013
About two weeks ago, a question popped up on Quora asking: "How much research has gone into developing the Facebook 'ping' sound?"Wired From ACM Careers | June 13, 2013
A six-month study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud... From ACM Careers | June 13, 2013
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...GigaOm From ACM News | June 13, 2013
Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...Wired From ACM News | June 12, 2013
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 12, 2013
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...The Guardian From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...The New York Times From ACM News | June 11, 2013
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
As computer-based testing becomes more common across the country, cheaters and those trying to prevent it are going high-tech.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...Wired From ACM News | June 10, 2013
In 2012, education startups attracted millions of students—and a surge of interest from universities and the media—by offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs...Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2013
If you walk the halls at MIT, you may notice a lot of students wearing T-shirts bearing the Dropbox logo. It's a simple design—an opened box—but one that carries...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2013
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 6, 2013
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.BBC News From ACM News | June 5, 2013
A 16-year-old programmer named Ash Bhat is attending Apple's WWDC next week for free. How? He created an iOS app that earned him one of 150 scholarships.CNET From ACM Careers | June 5, 2013
China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs.The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 5, 2013