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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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It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...BBC News From ACM News | February 11, 2015
A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement...Wired From ACM News | February 11, 2015
Two Washington state legislators have recently introduced a bill that would allow computer science class (e.g., programming) to effectively count as a foreign language...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 10, 2015
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...Nature From ACM News | February 9, 2015
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | February 6, 2015
To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.Nature From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has demonstrated that using metal-alloy catalysts can give more control over nanowire fabrication.Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
At large news agencies where speed is crucial, template-style stories have long been used for company results, allowing journalists to simply key in the relevant...CNN From ACM News | February 5, 2015
The people clamoring for tough, new regulations for Internet service—everyone from net neutrality activists and a few blue-chip companies to President Obama and ...Bloomberg From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2015
New research shows that graphene and related 2-D materials could be used to create the first generation of light-emitting electronic devices that are thin, flexible... From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
The artificial-intelligence industry, a field that conjures up images of humanoid robots and self-aware computer systems, is making a comeback at Silicon Valley...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | February 3, 2015
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories say better materials and manufacturing techniques for thermoelectric nanowires could allow carmakers to harvest power...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | February 2, 2015
Researchers have unveiled a new design that in experiments extended the superposition time of a promising type of qubit a hundredfold, which could lead toward practical...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 30, 2015
Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 29, 2015
Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and...Scientific American From ACM News | January 28, 2015