Microsoft researchers have designed virtual reality solutions to allow users to remain fully immersed in virtual environments, even when walking in real-life locations...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2019
Ransomware has crippled hospitals in Alabama and Australia, blocking admission for all but the most critical new patients.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | October 4, 2019
A "RobbinHood" ransomware attack earlier this week crippled networks used by Baltimore's city government.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2019
The pilots of Ethiopia Airlines Flight 302 apparently followed the proper steps to shut down an errant flight control system as they struggled to regain control...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 4, 2019
The crashed Lion Air 737 MAX and the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft had more in common than aircraft design and the apparently malfunctioning flight system...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 22, 2019
A prosecutor in Arizona has decided not to press charges against Uber in the March 2018 death of Elaine Herzberg. One of Uber's self-driving cars crashed into Herzberg...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 6, 2019
OpenAI, a non-profit research company investigating "the path to safe artificial intelligence," has developed a machine learning system called Generative Pre-trained...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 20, 2019
Cities generate lots of data. The exact amount depends on the size of the city and its sophistication and ambitions, but it's certainly more than mere humans can...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 10, 2018
Ask anyone what they think of when the words "artificial intelligence" and aviation are combined, and it's likely the first things they'll mention are drones.
Ars Technica From ACM News | December 5, 2018
A study by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology warns of a decade-old bug in the Bluetooth specification.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2018
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 8, 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
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
Ars Technica From ACM News | February 26, 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
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 18, 2017
On November 1, the US Navy issued its report on the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain this summer.
Ars Technica From ACM News | November 2, 2017