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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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For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2014
The Association for Computing Machinery, a leading professional association in computer science, is holding its annual conference this week, focusing on what we’re...The New York Times From ACM News | August 27, 2014
Birds are nice enough, unless you work at places like airports, farms, and landfills, in which case they’re the sworn enemy.Wired From ACM Careers | August 27, 2014
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 26, 2014
A team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is investigating security and usability of next-generation CAPTCHAs based on simple computer games.University of Alabama at Birmingham From ACM Careers | August 26, 2014
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2014
Here's something you probably didn't expect in your inbox: Researchers have now developed a way to email brainwaves.Newsweek From ACM News | August 22, 2014
App maker Readdle sounds like a classic success story from Silicon Valley: In 2007, four young techies get together to pioneer business productivity tools for the...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 21, 2014
I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...The New York Times From ACM News | August 13, 2014
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera.Wired From ACM News | August 12, 2014
For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.Time From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
The singularity—or, to give it its proper title, the technological singularity. It's an idea that has taken on a life of its own; more of a life, I suspect, than...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission is at one of the world's biggest hacker conferences this weekend, where hackers are competing to help save us all from robocalls.Time From ACM Careers | August 11, 2014
It may not seem hard to plug a cord into the wall to charge your mobile phone or tablet. Nonetheless, a number of companies are trying to figure out how to save...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 7, 2014
Cyber security researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight...Reuters From ACM News | August 6, 2014