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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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At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...The New York Times From ACM News | May 7, 2018
Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 7, 2018
Three-dimensional printers are letting doctors in Minnesota make simulated body parts in a hospital and a Brooklyn startup create rocket engines designed to put...Reuters From ACM Careers | May 7, 2018
Should technologists prevent their tools from being used to wage war? This question was answered with a furious yes at Google recently, when more than 3,000 employees ...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 4, 2018
In 2011, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper introducing the world to Crispr. The arcane family of bacterial proteins...Wired From ACM Careers | April 26, 2018
A team of researchers have created an optical communications device that translates electrical bits into photonic bits at speeds tens of times faster than current...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | April 26, 2018
For the third year running KU Leuven tops Reuters ranking of Europe's most innovative universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions...Reuters From ACM Careers | April 25, 2018
In "I Sing the Body Electric," the poet Walt Whitman waxed lyrically about the "action and power" of "beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh."
The Atlantic From ACM Careers | April 20, 2018
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...Wired From ACM News | April 18, 2018
When Zbynek Frolik needed new employees to handle surging orders at his cavernous factories in central Bohemia, he fanned advertisements across the Czech Republic...The New York Times From ACM News | April 17, 2018
"HeartOnSleeve," "Too Tired to be Tired," "Moodchanger," "Food for Less Thought." If these apps sound like something a teen girl would love, that's because they...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Careers | April 17, 2018
Facebook has been criticised for hiding an advertising product that claims to be able to predict users' future behaviours and target messages at them in an attempt...The Guardian From ACM Careers | April 16, 2018
China's rising investment in research and expansion of its higher education system mean that it is fast closing the gap with the United States in intellectual property...Reuters From ACM News | April 13, 2018
In statistics, abstract math meets real life. To find meaning in unruly sets of raw numbers, statisticians like Donald Richards first look for associations: statistical...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | April 13, 2018
In 2007, I spent the summer before my junior year of college removing little bits of brain from rats, growing them in tiny plastic dishes, and poring over the ...Wired From ACM Careers | April 13, 2018
IBM is betting on quantum computing, but it can't win without the help of startups. And how long it will take for the bet to pay off is anybody's guess.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM Careers | April 11, 2018
In a dank corner of the internet, it is possible to find actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in all manner of sex acts. Or at least to the world...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2018
SenseTime Group Ltd. has raised $600 million from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and other investors at a valuation of more than $3 billion, becoming the world's most...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | April 10, 2018