Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information…
From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 28, 2016
Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 10, 2016
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
When Daniel Rigmaiden was a little boy, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II and Korea, used to drive him along the roads of Monterey, California, playing...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 11, 2016
In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 22, 2016
A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 21, 2015
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015
Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | September 10, 2015
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 9, 2015
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 19, 2014
Two years ago, when the Detroit Crime Commission began collecting and analyzing the social media posts of suspected criminals, it found Excel wasn’t up to the task...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 14, 2014
The writers and editors at the Weather Channel's weather.com don’t often talk about the weather.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 9, 2014
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 22, 2014
Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 17, 2014
In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids' imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | September 12, 2014
As processors and sensors have become smaller and found their way into everything from cars to traffic lights to smoke detectors, software developers have kept...Bloomberg BusinessWeek From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2014
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 9, 2014