Google says it has created "the world's largest earthquake detection network" by adding quake detection features to almost all Google Play Android phones.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 17, 2020
Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type "beach," and see my photos from various beaches I've visited over the last decade.
Ars Technica From ACM News | December 20, 2018
Digital privacy has come a long way since June 2013. In the five years since documents provided by Edward Snowden became the basis for a series of revelations that...Ars Technica From ACM News | November 21, 2018
Ever wonder what the people on the other end of a Hangouts session are really looking at on their screens?
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 29, 2018
On Tuesday morning, the 45th president of the United States woke up around 5:30am Eastern Time and decided to begin his Tuesday by berating the "Fake News Media...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 28, 2018
Stripe is one of the most popular ways for small online organizations to accept credit card payments. And in 2014 it became one of the first major payment processors...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 24, 2018
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 5, 2018
The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 5, 2018
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 27, 2017
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 3, 2017
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 24, 2017
When reporters at The Intercept approached the National Security Agency on June 1 to confirm a document that had been anonymously leaked to the publication in May...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 7, 2017
At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 30, 2017
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2017
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 6, 2017
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the US Intelligence Community’s own science and technology research arm, has announced it is seeking...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 25, 2017
Most commuters keep their eyes down in the morning while traipsing through the gleaming corridors of London’s Euston Underground station.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 19, 2016