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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.
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 28, 2012
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 13, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 9, 2012
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 13, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 22, 2011
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 15, 2011
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 13, 2011
Before he died on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs left clues that he was working on a new product that would revolutionize how we interact with our TVs. "It will have the...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 9, 2011
A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 29, 2011
John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 26, 2011
A rash of cyberattacks has raised the profile of such incursions and led to a booming cyberweapons industry. Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2011
Dell Computer and several U.S. universities have provided Japanese researchers with supercomputing capacity following the March 11 earthquake, as rolling blackouts...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2011
The National Security Agency, the top U.S. electronic intelligence service, has joined a probe of the October cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. amid evidence...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 31, 2011
Women with engineering or computer science degrees face a tricky career path at technology companies and often leave their jobs just as they near their career peaks...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2010
When a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is released on Nov. 15, some industry experts believe that China will be ranked first. "There's a great belief...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2010
Researchers at Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina have found that wireless signals between new cars and their tires can be intercepted or forged...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2010