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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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On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | June 22, 2016
This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2016
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
In one college major at Seoul's elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders.Reuters From ACM Careers | June 20, 2016
A syringe-making machine built by Stevanato Group SpA of Italy runs 23 hours a day, churning out glass needles that can be filled with blood thinners, vaccines...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 20, 2016
Researchers from MIT CSAIL have created a chip design that could make parallel programs more efficient and easier to write.MIT News From ACM Careers | June 20, 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
Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence at UT Dallas are working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in breath analysis for a...University of Texas at Dallas From ACM Careers | June 17, 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
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
If you're a systems administrator working in the United States, a recent decision from 12 Texan jurors should give you a moment of pause before you next hit the...Wired From ACM Careers | June 13, 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
Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 10, 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