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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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Matt Krisiloff is in a small, glass-walled conference room off the lobby of Y Combinator’s office in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, shouting distance...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2016
Legal experts say that it will be an uphill battle for the plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit this week against Twitter, Facebook, and Google.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | June 17, 2016
Bitcoin may still bring to mind images of clandestine drug markets and anarchist hackers bent on liberating finance from financial companies. But some of the world’s...Wired From ACM Careers | June 17, 2016
University of Utah Professor Mike Scarpulla and NREL Senior Scientist Kirstin Alberi have developed a theory that light can stamp out defects in semiconductors,...niversity of tah From ACM Careers | June 16, 2016
Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already available in Europe. The developments mark a triumph...Nature From ACM Careers | June 15, 2016
Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2016
Scientists at Hewlett Packard Enterprise have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how the memristor works at an atomic scale, an important step in designing...SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory From ACM Careers | June 15, 2016
In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...Wired From ACM News | June 14, 2016
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...Nature From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
An ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international...University of Illinois at Chicago From ACM Careers | June 13, 2016
Swarms of journalists lined the halls of a Southern California oceanfront resort recently to see tech luminaries like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk discuss the Gawker...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | June 10, 2016
The next-generation factory worker isn't a robot, but a tech-augmented human—a kind of "Iron Man" outfitted with performance-enhancing gear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
On Tuesday, I listened to eight teams of Stanford students present their solutions to current national security problems on the final day of H4D: Hacking for Defense...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...Newsweek From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
They replaced horses, didn't they? That's how the late, great economist Wassily Leontief responded 35 years ago to those who argued technology would never really...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016
Digital currency Bitcoin is variously promoted as an alternative to gold, a good way to make international transfers, or the future of e-commerce. New research...Technology Review From ACM Careers | June 8, 2016
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...Nature From ACM News | June 2, 2016