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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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No one knows exactly how many personal drones are buzzing through our skies, but Chris Anderson, the longtime editor of Wired magazine who now heads a drone manufacturer...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 17, 2014
From the garden terrace of a sixth-floor walkup on a quiet Berlin street, there was a clear view to the TV Tower, in Alexanderplatz.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2014
Four years ago I interviewed Sam Yagan, then CEO of OKCupid, about the mathematics underlying his free matchmaking site.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2014
AT&T acknowledged earlier this week that in August an employee had gained unauthorized access to some customers' personal data—including Social Security and driver's...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | October 9, 2014
With little fanfare, urban areas have become overgrown by a tangle of sensors: cameras unobtrusively snapping pictures at traffic lights, microphones secretly triangulating...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 8, 2014
The story of how the digital age came to be involves a cast of more than 40 people, ranging from a 19th century English countess to California hippies.NPR From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2014
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a sleek, simple, and inexpensive way to turn a cellphone into a high powered, high quality...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory From ACM Careers | September 29, 2014
Web programmers rejoice: Apple's new iOS 8 has added support for standards that will let you build better games and more productive websites.CNET From ACM Careers | September 19, 2014
A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...Scientific American From ACM Careers | September 17, 2014
IBM computer scientist Craig Gentry was named to the 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows for his work on cryptography. The MacArthur 'genius grants' recognize exceptionally...MacArthur Foundation From ACM Careers | September 17, 2014
Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 17, 2014
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...The Washington Post From ACM News | September 11, 2014
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transition to Practice program is giving cybersecurity technologies developed at the U.S. national laboratories a better...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | September 10, 2014
I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet...Medium From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2014