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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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The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his...The Conversation From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2018
European authorities on Wednesday proposed revamping the way many technology companies in the region are taxed, outlining wide-ranging changes that they hope will...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 22, 2018
The Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Development Program (JNLWD) is closing in on a directed energy weapon that can literally tell people to go...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | March 22, 2018
Facebook Inc.'s handling of user data has upset lawmakers and regulators in multiple countries. But the biggest risk to its business could come from angry users...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 22, 2018
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive...Wired From ACM News | March 19, 2018
There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley's biggest companies as it pursues work on artificial intelligence. The question...The New York Times From ACM News | March 15, 2018
Researchers conducted a thorough experimental evaluation to discern how on-package memories affect the performance and power efficiency of high-performance computing....S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | March 15, 2018
Of all the ways Theresa May could hit back against Russia over the poisoning of an agent on British soil, a cyberattack seems almost fitting.
Politico From ACM News | March 14, 2018
NASA's InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | March 14, 2018
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 14, 2018
After 10-year-old Blaine Baxter injured his arm in a go-kart accident last year, painful daily dressing changes at the hospital made him so anxious that he had...CNET From ACM Careers | March 13, 2018
Blockchain has been in the news lately, but beyond knowing that it has something to do with payments and digital currencies, most people don't know what blockchain...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2018
When top tech minds sat down to set the global standards underpinning today's cellphone networks, China was left largely on the sidelines. Companies in the West...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 12, 2018
Computer code written by scientists forms the basis of an increasing number of studies across many fields—and an increasing number of papers that report the results...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2018
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...Reuters From ACM News | March 12, 2018
Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent jockey for position in the development of quantum computers, which are theoretically capable of making calculations that are orders...South China Morning Post From ACM Careers | March 12, 2018
Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | March 9, 2018
JavaScript, Java, and Python top RedMonk's Q1 2018 Programming Language Rankings, and Apple's Swift has moved into the Top Ten.
RedMonk From ACM Careers | March 9, 2018
Two Democratic senators on Wednesday asked major vendors of U.S. voting equipment whether they have allowed Russian entities to scrutinize their software, saying...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 8, 2018
Mr. President, if you're looking for someone to demonize for killing blue-collar jobs in your favorite industries, don't blame China and "bad trade deals."
Blame...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | March 7, 2018