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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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If you strip away the flashy interfaces, expensive ad campaigns, and layers of hype, you'll notice that for the past 15 years, the dominant unit of social technology...Buzzfeed From ACM Careers | May 30, 2013
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...Wired From ACM News | May 29, 2013
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | May 29, 2013
New interactive games are designed to make commuting to work more of an entertaining experience, with possible application toward boosting the efficiency of transport...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 29, 2013
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...CNET From ACM News | May 29, 2013
You're having a conversation with someone and suddenly his eyes drop to his smartphone or drift over your shoulder toward someone else. The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 29, 2013
If the Hatfields and McCoys lived in Silicon Valley, they'd be fighting with piles of cash and lines of software code instead of knives and shotguns.The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 29, 2013
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is...NBC News From ACM News | May 28, 2013
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...Slate From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 28, 2013
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.BBC News From ACM News | May 28, 2013
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...HPC Wire From ACM News | May 24, 2013
Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 24, 2013
When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 24, 2013
Microsoft announced a new version of the Xbox One earlier this week, and with it an improved and essentially reinvented version of Kinect, the company's body- and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 23, 2013
As much time as we spend with our cell phones and laptops and tablets, it's still pretty much a one-way relationship.Smithsonian magazine From ACM Careers | May 23, 2013
Two years ago Stanford professor Andrew Ng joined Google's X Lab, the research group that's given us Google Glass and the company's driverless cars. His mission...Wired From ACM Careers | May 22, 2013