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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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When an anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers put up for auction a collection of data it said it stole from the NSA, the group wrote that it would make...Wired From ACM Careers | August 17, 2016
If Pokemon Go achieved one thing, it was showing the world that augmented reality technologies are ready for the mainstream.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 16, 2016
Smartphones can tell you when to depart for the airport to make your flight, provide voice-guided directions on the way there, and route around traffic jams.Technology Review From ACM Careers | August 16, 2016
The U.S. sailing team left the 2012 London Olympics without any medals—it was the first time Americans had failed to place in an event since the 1936 Berlin games...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into...CNET From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin will come to occupy a central place...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 15, 2016
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $1.3 million to 13 small businesses for the development of new cyber...U.S. DHS Science & Technology Directorate From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.Nature From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
Kurt Sippel started Applied Tech Solutions in 1999 and worked out of a 450-square-foot apartment. Today, the business's 62 employees provide computer support and...University of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
A group of recent studies on technology in education gives a sense that, even as computers become ubiquitous in classrooms, there's a lot we still don't know or...NPR From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
International Business Machines Corp is in an unusual fix in telling big U.S. banks they can use its Watson software of Jeopardy-winning fame as a cost-saving solution...Reuters From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
IFTTT is a handy way of automating your life. You can use the service—the acronym means "if this, then that"—to, say, upload your Instagram photos to Dropbox, save...Wired From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
At Guglielmo Marconi's grand state funeral in Rome in 1937—orchestrated with military-style pomp by the black-shirted Benito Mussolini—the largest wreath on the...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | August 11, 2016
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) worked with industry partners to integrate commercial technologies into a mobile wireless communications...U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
A new programming language can speed up computer simulations 200-fold or reduce the code they require by 90 percent.
MIT News From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
NetDragon Websoft Holdings, a hack-and-slash video-game maker, is an unlikely candidate to transform learning via headset-mounted virtual reality teachers.The Japan Times From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016