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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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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
Donald Trump says that if he becomes president, he will "get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China." Bernie Sanders...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | 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
The central bank of Bangladesh was the victim of one of the biggest bank heists of all time in February, when thieves made off with $81 million.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 6, 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
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...Nature From ACM News | June 1, 2016
America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.
The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2016
The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...Wired From ACM Careers | May 27, 2016
Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...The New York Times From ACM News | May 26, 2016
The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after...South China Morning Post From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Larry Gadea's company collects heaps of sensitive data from his customers.The Washington Post From ACM Careers | May 25, 2016
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...Nature From ACM News | May 25, 2016
Last year Microsoft and Google both showed that their image-recognition algorithms had learned to best humans.Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 25, 2016
Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be adapted to recreate crime scenes for juries, researchers have claimed.BBC News From ACM Careers | May 24, 2016
The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016