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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 archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...Nature From ACM News | June 1, 2016
America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.
The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2016
The cradle of American automotive innovation has in the past decade migrated 2,000 miles from Detroit to Silicon Valley, where autonomous vehicles and other advanced...Wired From ACM Careers | May 27, 2016
Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...The New York Times From ACM News | May 26, 2016
The manufacturing hub for the electronics industry, Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, is seeking a drastic reduction in labour costs as it undergoes a makeover after...South China Morning Post From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Larry Gadea's company collects heaps of sensitive data from his customers.The Washington Post From ACM Careers | May 25, 2016
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...Nature From ACM News | May 25, 2016
Last year Microsoft and Google both showed that their image-recognition algorithms had learned to best humans.Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 25, 2016
Virtual reality technology used in the gaming industry could be adapted to recreate crime scenes for juries, researchers have claimed.BBC News From ACM Careers | May 24, 2016
The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 20, 2016
When Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies (known as SpaceX) set a rocket down on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean on May 6, many cheered it as the latest...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 20, 2016
As a boy growing up in Denmark, Eske Willerslev could not wait to leave Gentofte, his suburban hometown. As soon as he was old enough, he would strike out for the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2016
Life would be pretty dull without imagination. In fact, maybe the biggest problem for computers is that they don't have any.Technology Review From ACM Careers | May 19, 2016
Recently, United States Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work publicly confirmed that the Pentagon’s Cyber Command was "dropping cyberbombs," taking its ongoing...The Conversation From ACM News | May 18, 2016