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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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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
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called "accessibility" lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | 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
For anyone who has wondered how it’s possible to get so much stuff from web companies free or at too-good-to-be-true prices—whether Google searching, Facebook socializing...The New York Times From ACM News | October 14, 2014
A new educational institution, the coding boot camp, is quietly emerging as the vocational school for the digital age, devoted to creating software developers.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 14, 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 boom in e-commerce and social media in Asia has spread from the trading floor to real estate.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 7, 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
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | 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
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