In his keynote address at the 2016 South By Southwest conference, President Barack Obama responded directly to a question about cybersecurity in light of the ongoing...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 11, 2016
Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 24, 2016
Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 19, 2016
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."Ars Technica From ACM News | February 18, 2016
An analysis of millions of GitHub pull requests found women's contributions were accepted more frequently than men's, but only if they had gender-neutral profiles...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | February 17, 2016
An estimated 63 percent of the encryption products available today are developed outside US borders, according to a new report that takes a firm stance against...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 11, 2016
Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 5, 2016
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 14, 2016
It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | January 7, 2016
The Dutch government has released a statement in which it says that "it is currently not desirable to take restricting legal measures concerning the development...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 6, 2016
Quantum systems are inherently fragile as any interactions with the outside world can change their state.Ars Technica From ACM News | December 17, 2015
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 11, 2015
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 28, 2015