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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.
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
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
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 26, 2014
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 17, 2014
Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 7, 2014
Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google has received about 50,000 requests for...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 3, 2014