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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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A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...Politico From ACM Careers | February 20, 2013
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...The Guardian From ACM News | February 19, 2013
In the elusive dream of the automated home, visitors ring a doorbell, and it buzzes the homeowner's mobile phone. Lawn sprinklers take rainy days off. At bedtime...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 15, 2013
While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 13, 2013
Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent email from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them...ArsTechnica From ACM News | February 12, 2013
For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...BBC News From ACM News | February 8, 2013
Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...Bloomberg From ACM News | February 8, 2013
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...Time From ACM News | February 6, 2013
In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 5, 2013
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
Microsoft researcher Don Syme notes that one primary difference between F# and other programming languages is that F# is a functional-first language and, in many...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2013
The Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is the first of a breed of ultratall buildings that will exceed 3,000 feet in height. That's more than twice as tall...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 1, 2013
Consumer internet companies are notorious for selling us something we don't really need, whether it’s Foursquare telling us to check in to the restaurants and shops...Wired From ACM Careers | January 28, 2013
Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 25, 2013
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...GigaOm From ACM Careers | January 24, 2013
The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...Nextgov From ACM News | January 17, 2013
If the strength of Seattle’s office market could be chalked up to one company, it would be Amazon.The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 17, 2013
Google announced that it is throwing two hackathons for developers to get to know and work on its Google Glass project. The people allowed to participate in the...CNET From ACM Careers | January 16, 2013