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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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The news out of Moscow of late has been dominated by Edward Snowden, the American leaker of secret state documents who is currently seeking temporary asylum in...Fortune From ACM News | July 30, 2013
To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 30, 2013
In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union's newly launched Sputnik satellite would regularly streak across the Los Angeles sky, a bright dot in the black night.Los Angeles Times From ACM News | July 30, 2013
The last few years have presented an unprecedented shift in the computing world as PCs are being replaced with mobile devices. But now that a large portion of the...Forbes From ACM News | July 29, 2013
Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 26, 2013
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...Reuters From ACM Careers | July 26, 2013
In roughly the past two years, Target Corp., General Electric Co., Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and other big companies have opened outposts in or near Silicon...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 26, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...Slate From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2013
Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...Research at Google From ACM News | July 24, 2013
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...The Associated Press From ACM News | July 22, 2013
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...GigaOm From ACM News | July 22, 2013
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
University of Washington engineers found in a recent study that the user's experience could be key to creating an authentication system that doesn't rely on passwords...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | July 17, 2013
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 17, 2013
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...The New York Times From ACM News | July 15, 2013
Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important engines powering the rise of the technology industry,...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 15, 2013