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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.
Companies and countries that depend on travel or large gatherings are counting on a totally unproven concept.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 26, 2021
How the world's biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyze some very sensitive recordings.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek From ACM News | December 12, 2019
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | November 20, 2018
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 5, 2018
A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 13, 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
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
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 4, 2016
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | August 4, 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
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
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
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