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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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Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
Since it first appeared in Apple's App Store last year, the free encrypted calling and texting app Signal has become the darling of the privacy community, recommended—and...Wired From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a computational strategy to search for molecules that could be developed into glioblastoma drugs.UC San Diego Health From ACM Careers | November 2, 2015
"I like to drive cars," says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, "so this is a little funny."Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 29, 2015
Berkeley Lab researchers have found a way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel, which could help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG)...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | October 29, 2015
A petition calling for President Obama to support strong encryption and "reject any law, policy or mandate" that would undermine digital security reached 100,000...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | October 28, 2015
Scott Walker's withdrawal from the 2016 presidential race last month was tough on staffers like Matt Oczkowski—as it turns out, tougher than he thought.Wired From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
There is a pre-existing assumption that women place less importance on their careers than men. A new study by an Ithaca College professor challenges this assumption...Ithaca College From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
Former U.S. National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander's cyber security startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, said on Monday it had raised $32.5 million in...Reuters From ACM Careers | October 26, 2015
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 26, 2015
It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty...Wired From ACM News | October 21, 2015
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...The New York Times From ACM News | October 21, 2015
Cornell social scientists found that women hold no hiring edge when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
Earlier this month the European Union's top court struck down a major trade agreement that thousands of companies use to transfer Europeans' personal data to the...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...Capital Gazette From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 16, 2015