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
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
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
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
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
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, Samsung introduced new software for its tablets, called the Magazine UX.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2014
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 24, 2014
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
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
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
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
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China’s online surveillance apparatus.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 12, 2013
Consider the tongue. It's sensitive yet muscular, packed with taste buds and nerves, and without its acrobatic ability humans wouldn’t be able to eat or talk. It's...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2013
In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | February 5, 2013