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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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When Daniel Rigmaiden was a little boy, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II and Korea, used to drive him along the roads of Monterey, California, playing...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 11, 2016
Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.Scientific American From ACM News | March 10, 2016
Cothority, a new software project designed to make secret backdoored software updates nearly impossible, is offering to help Apple ensure that any secret court...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | March 10, 2016
What keeps software developers up at night, other than coding? The fear that artificial intelligence systems can replace them, according to a new survey.Computerworld From ACM Careers | March 9, 2016
Nature editors present their pick of the winning scientific images in the awards run by the Wellcome Trust. The London biomedical charity will announce the overall...Nature From ACM Careers | March 8, 2016
The Apple-FBI standoff, where Apple is refusing to write special software that would help investigators crack into an iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters...NPR From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2016
China aims to become a world leader in advanced industries such as semiconductors and in the next generation of chip materials, robotics, aviation equipment and...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 8, 2016
Amazon Web Services, a globe-spanning cloud computing network that is part of the online retailing giant Amazon, has rapidly become one of the most powerful forces...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 7, 2016
U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...Technology Review From ACM News | March 7, 2016
Tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 4, 2016
Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2016
The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as part of a pilot...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 2, 2016
A camera that can record 3-D images and video is under development at the University of Michigan. The design will be smaller and able to achieve higher resolutions...University of Michigan From ACM Careers | March 2, 2016
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch joined a parade of Obama administration officials to tech's home turf on Tuesday. Their message: National security depends on...The New York Times From ACM News | March 2, 2016
There can't be many job titles out there cooler than "futurist." And earlier this week, I sat down with Sheryl Connelly, who holds that position at the Ford Motor...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2016
More than half the people on the planet still don't have Internet access. But figuring out how to get them online is as much of a political challenge as it is a...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 29, 2016
On Friday evening, inside an old-movie-house-cum-art-gallery at the heart of San Francisco's Mission district, Google graphics guru Blaise Agüera y Arcas delivered...Wired From ACM Careers | February 29, 2016
Apple Inc's stance on privacy in the face of a U.S. government demand to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino attackers has raised awkward questions...Reuters From ACM News | February 26, 2016