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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Last July, 13 U.S. military commanders and technology executives met at the Pentagon's Silicon Valley outpost, two miles from Google headquarters.
Bloomberg From ACM Careers | May 15, 2018
The Trump administration's concern about China's growing technology clout is putting even more pressure on U.S. wireless carriers in their marketing battle over...Bloomberg From ACM News | April 2, 2018
Nicholas Oliver gathers reams of personal information about users of his mobile app: age, sex, location, profession, relationship status, and more—and uses it to...Bloomberg From ACM News | March 29, 2018
Ouliana Trofimenko and Annie Rihn, who work for different technology companies on the West Coast, are both on the front lines of one of the biggest challenges to...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | March 9, 2018
For years, thousands of virtual private networks (VPNs) have allowed people in China to circumvent restrictions on internet access and visit Facebook, Google, YouTube...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 1, 2018
Picture this: You're driving home from work, contemplating what to make for dinner, and as you idle at a red light near your neighborhood pizzeria, an ad offering...Bloomberg From ACM News | February 21, 2018
In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM News | February 8, 2018
Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...Bloomberg From ACM News | January 9, 2018
Last month, federal agencies and utility executives held GridEx IV, a biennial event where officials responsible for hundreds of local utilities game out scenarios...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 22, 2017
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 21, 2017
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 20, 2017
The headquarters of Fanuc sit in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, on a sprawling, secluded campus of 22 windowless factories and dozens of office buildings.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 23, 2017
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 13, 2017
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 5, 2017
Recent experiments utilized a method that could enable quantum computers to perform calculations beyond the capabilities of today's most powerful supercomputers...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2017