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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.
The National Basketball Association announced a contract with sports information company Stats to install player-tracking camera systems in every arena beginning...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 10, 2013
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 9, 2013
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 30, 2013
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 29, 2013
Before heading to lunch, Kirsten Keary-Taylor, 29, uses an iPhone app to request $20 from a nearby ATM. Passing the cash machine on her way out, she scans it with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 2, 2013
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 26, 2013
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 12, 2013
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 5, 2013
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 30, 2013
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 28, 2013
Leave it to the quantum physicists at Los Alamos National Labs to have run for the past two years something that sounded like science fiction: a quantum Internet...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | May 13, 2013
On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That's more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 9, 2013
Before the Internet, there was the ARPANet, a closed computer network that pretty much shut down on weekends and over holidays.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2013
One of the oddest bits of news to emerge from the economic collapse of Cyprus is a corresponding rise in the value of Bitcoin, the Internet’s favorite, media-friendly...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 29, 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency has published for the first time "Some Far-Out Thoughts on Computers," a 1962 internal document that shows how eager the agency...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 21, 2013
Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | March 18, 2013