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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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There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | January 13, 2015
In 2007, Bill Gates stepped onstage at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to help introduce Sync, a combination GPS navigator, digital music...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 12, 2015
Companies spend billions of dollars each year to protect from determined hackers attacking from across the Internet, but experts warn they shouldn't ignore a closer...CNET From ACM Careers | January 8, 2015
A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...NBC News From ACM Careers | December 31, 2014
The Daily Paywall is a new website that's loaded with tens of thousands of pirated articles from some of the world's top paywalled newspapers, and its proprietor...Motherboard From ACM Careers | December 23, 2014
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 19, 2014
Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 16, 2014
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 15, 2014
A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 15, 2014
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 10, 2014
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | December 8, 2014
Despite its poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state...Reuters From ACM Careers | December 5, 2014
Paul Kocher, one of the country's leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world's dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts.The New York Times From ACM News | December 5, 2014