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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
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 22, 2018
Replication is essential for building confidence in research studies, yet it is still the exception rather than the rule.
Nature From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2018
The morning John Kennedy was set to testify last December, he woke up at 1:30 am, in an unfamiliar hotel room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, adrenaline coursing through... From ACM News | February 20, 2018
In 1984, two men were thinking a lot about the Internet. One of them invented it. The other is an artist who would see its impact on society with uncanny prescience...NPR From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2018
They may not have the cachet of entrepreneurs, or geek chic of developers, but data protection officers are suddenly the hottest properties in technology.
Reuters From ACM Careers | February 20, 2018
Two thousand years ago, the Romans used elevators—powered by pulleys, levers, and slaves—to raise gladiators and wild beasts into the Colosseum for death-match...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM Careers | February 16, 2018
The booming field of artificial intelligence is grappling with a replication crisis. AI researchers have found it difficult to reproduce many key results, and that...Science From ACM Careers | February 15, 2018
The head of the FBI has warned that the Chinese government may be spying on U.S. citizens who use smartphones made by Huawei.
Newsweek From ACM Careers | February 15, 2018
Widerven Villegas and his brother wash some 30 cars a day at a parking lot in Caracas. Despite charging less than 50 cents, nobody pays them in cash.
Reuters From ACM Careers | February 15, 2018
Professor Conrad Tucker of Penn State University has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to investigate whether crowd-sourced data from social media can be...Pennsylvania State niversity From ACM Careers | February 15, 2018
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers want to expand operations at two observatories.
BBC News From ACM Careers | February 14, 2018
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
Wired From ACM News | February 14, 2018
Sitting in his startup lab space on the outskirts of MIT's campus, Alec Nielsen opens his laptop and types in instructions for a genetically modified yeast cell...Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 13, 2018
In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030.
The New York Times From ACM News | February 13, 2018
If you want to command a multiyear, seven-figure salary, you used to have only four career options: chief executive officer, banker, celebrity entertainer, or pro...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM Careers | February 13, 2018
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are conducting a $7.9 million, 21-month study focused on working professionals in cognitively demanding positions, such...University of Notre Dame From ACM Careers | February 13, 2018
Among the many, many Democrats who will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2020, most probably agree on a handful of core issues: protecting DACA, rejoining... From ACM Opinion | February 12, 2018
Monika Bickert is a serious, impressive person. Before she became Facebook's head of global policy management, she put her Harvard law degree to work as an assistant...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 9, 2018
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...Technology Review From ACM News | February 9, 2018
In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM News | February 8, 2018