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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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I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2014
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
Voice students who want to perfect how they sing their vowels can get help from a new free application called Vowel Shapes developed by a group of University of...niversity of Rochester From ACM Careers | March 7, 2014
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.Nieman Journalism Review From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014
The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...Fortune From ACM Careers | March 4, 2014
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...The Guardian From ACM News | March 3, 2014
The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2014
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...Xinhua News Agency From ACM News | February 28, 2014
What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...CNET From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...Time From ACM News | February 28, 2014
University of Washington computer scientists have built a low-cost gesture recognition system that runs without batteries and lets users control their electronic...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014