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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 United States Justice Department announced this week that it was able to unlock the iPhone used by the gunman in the San Bernardino shooting in December, and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
More computer programmers are self-taught rather than graduates of coding "boot camps" or industry certification programs run by big tech companies, according to...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | March 30, 2016
Linus Torvalds created the original core of the Linux operating system in 1991 as a computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
China's government said on Monday that it would take steps to more strictly manage websites in the country, its latest push to set boundaries in the wider Internet...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 29, 2016
At one of the busiest shipping terminals in the U.S., more than two dozen giant red robots wheeled cargo containers along the docks on a recent morning, handing...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 28, 2016
The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
For Robert Welborn, head of data science for the insurer and finance company USAA, 2015 was the year machine learning started to make commercial sense.Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 28, 2016
Since Galileo first discovered the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, telescopes have gotten larger, more accurate, and more powerful.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 28, 2016
A new $5.9 million data center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and located at the University of California, Santa Barbara will serve as NSF Arctic...U.S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | March 25, 2016
Turns out there's a shadowy global industry devoted to breaking into smartphones and extracting their information.The Associated Press From ACM Careers | March 24, 2016
Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.Nature From ACM News | March 24, 2016
Silicon Valley is full of logical absolutists, people who will follow a line of argument wherever it goes, no matter what the human repercussions.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 24, 2016
Israel's Cellebrite, a provider of mobile forensic software, is helping the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's attempt to unlock an iPhone used by one of the...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 24, 2016
If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple's help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may run into yet another roadblock: Apple's engineers.The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 18, 2016
Astronomer Scott Sheppard runs through his checklist as he settles in for a long night of skygazing at the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.Nature From ACM News | March 16, 2016