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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
When the owner of an automated Tesla was killed in a crash last year, the carmaker's founder, Elon Musk, urged journalists to peer into the future.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2017
Forty years ago, two papers1, 2 described the first tractable methods for determining the order of the chemical bases in stretches of DNA. Before these 1977 publications...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2017
The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end could be an efficient way to drive atomically thin electronic memory devices of the future, according...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | October 13, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes augmented reality's rise will be as "dramatic" as that of the App Store, but he doesn't believe AR glasses or similar wearables arewith...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | October 12, 2017
China wants to build a quantum computer with a million times the computing power of all others presently in the world.
Popular Science From ACM Careers | October 11, 2017
There's a placard in Anne Wojcicki's office enshrining the attitude that nearly ran her company, 23andme, aground.
Nature From ACM Careers | October 11, 2017
Dmitry Gutov's Moscow kitchen is home to an automated mining operation. Not for gold and industrial metals like many of his country's exporters, but for bitcoin...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 11, 2017
Among hundreds of genes that might nudge your risk of Alzheimer's up or down, Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has the strongest effect.
Scientific American From ACM Careers | October 11, 2017
Researchers at MIT have developed a system that uses information about light reflections to detect objects or people in a hidden scene and measure their speed and...MIT CSAIL From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
Researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body heat to power simple wearable devices.
Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one-on-one poker against a dozen people at once, and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 10, 2017
On Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new version of its automotive-grade compute platforms, Drive PX Pegasus.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
Google acquired the British artificial-intelligence startup DeepMind in 2014 for a reported £400 million (roughly $525 million), a company its cofounder Demis Hassabis ...Quartz From ACM Careers | October 6, 2017
An artificial intelligence research company owned by Google-parent Alphabet is launching a new division to examine the ethical impacts of AI.
The Hill From ACM Careers | October 5, 2017
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 5, 2017
Quantitative assessment, cost modeling, and greater interaction with potential users of technology developed in research labs will help it become better aligned...MIT News From ACM Careers | October 5, 2017
For the past five years, Cody Wilson has applied every possible advance in digital manufacturing technology to the mission of undermining government attempts at...Wired From ACM Careers | October 4, 2017
Scientists set record resolution for patterning materials at sizes as small as a single nanometer using microscope-based lithography.
.S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | October 4, 2017
Hot-air balloon pilot Richard Varney typically spends his weekends transporting tourists around central Massachusetts in a huge, multicolored balloon. But on a...Technology Review From ACM Careers | October 4, 2017