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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 recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | May 11, 2016
The discovery of an unexpected magnetic effect in a combination of thin-film materials could open up a new pathway to advanced electronic devices and even robust...MIT News From ACM Careers | May 10, 2016
A University of Washington team of computer scientists and engineers has built a robotic hand that can perform dexterous manipulation and also learn from its own...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | May 10, 2016
Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.The Washington Post From ACM Careers | May 6, 2016
This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...Science Magazine From ACM News | May 5, 2016
Donald Trump has proven a lot of people wrong, and not just because a year ago today none of us—perhaps not even Trump—would have imagined in our wildest fever...Wired From ACM Careers | May 5, 2016
In the wake of the historic detection of gravitational waves by a terrestrial US experiment, a space-borne European effort is drawing interest from a range of parties...Nature From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Researchers from France and Hungary have invented a way to print lasers that's so cheap, easy, and efficient they believe the core of the laser could be disposed...American Institute of Physics From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...Nature From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 2, 2016
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on February 17 but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...Scientific American From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
Researchers at Boise State University are looking for a better way to store digital information using nucleic acid memory.Boise State University From ACM Careers | April 28, 2016
Researchers from Colorado State University used non-polarized light to produce a spin voltage — a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual...Colorado State University From ACM Careers | April 26, 2016
Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.Slate From ACM Opinion | April 25, 2016
Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 25, 2016
NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | April 22, 2016
Researchers from University of California, Irvine have invented a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving closer...niversity of California, Irvine From ACM Careers | April 21, 2016
Instead of just burning coal, MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman says electronic devices should be made from the complex hydrocarbon.MIT News From ACM Careers | April 20, 2016