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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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A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.Nature From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
Kurt Sippel started Applied Tech Solutions in 1999 and worked out of a 450-square-foot apartment. Today, the business's 62 employees provide computer support and...University of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
A group of recent studies on technology in education gives a sense that, even as computers become ubiquitous in classrooms, there's a lot we still don't know or...NPR From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
International Business Machines Corp is in an unusual fix in telling big U.S. banks they can use its Watson software of Jeopardy-winning fame as a cost-saving solution...Reuters From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
IFTTT is a handy way of automating your life. You can use the service—the acronym means "if this, then that"—to, say, upload your Instagram photos to Dropbox, save...Wired From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | August 11, 2016
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) worked with industry partners to integrate commercial technologies into a mobile wireless communications...U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
A new programming language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.
MIT News From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video-game maker, is an unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.The Japan Times From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
Brookhaven Lab scientists have discovered a way to create nanoscale structures that snap together in complex patterns with unprecedented efficiency.Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
A 3-D sky-mapping project called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which will measure the light of millions of galaxies, has received formal approval...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 9, 2016
The Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS), a mobile, web-based communication platform for first responders, is now available worldwide, according to the...U.S. DHS Science & Technology Directorate From ACM Careers | August 9, 2016
Researchers have developed a simulation-guided drafting process to improve focused electron beam induced deposition, which opens new possibilities in 3-D nano-manufacturing...Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 8, 2016
Emmett Brewer is no taller than the lectern on the stage, so he stands to the side of it to deliver his presentation. He's got a Dennis the Menace hairdo and he's...CNET From ACM Careers | August 8, 2016
Scientists show how a buckyball buffer helps conduct electricity in only one direction, vital for molecule-sized circuits..S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | August 8, 2016