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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.
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...CNET From ACM News | April 16, 2013
Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government...CNET From ACM News | April 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...CNET From ACM News | March 8, 2013
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...CNET From ACM News | March 7, 2013
IBM wants to advance supercomputing technology in processing, optical communications, and memory by using the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2013
Technology evangelists have proposed a new inter-species Internet that would facilitate communication between humans and animals. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2013
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.CNET From ACM News | February 8, 2013
Had Dr. Dipak Chowdhury known just how accident-prone I really am, he never would have handed over the 0.1-millimeter sheet of glass for me to bend between my fingers...CNET From ACM News | February 4, 2013
Yale University professor David Gelernter recently predicted the end of current Web and search technology as the focus shifts from a space-based Web to a time-based...CNet From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2013
The Moving Picture Experts Group has developed the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). The video-compression technology will enable higher-quality video, and also...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2013
Sharing information online has the potential to improve society worldwide, said World Wide Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the recent 2013 World Economic Forum...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2013
Ray Kurzweil's vision of the "singularity"—when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable—is...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2013
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.CNET From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2013
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
The U.S. National Security Agency has launched Perfect Citizen, a program to find security vulnerabilities in the computerized systems that control utilities....CNet From ACM TechNews | December 26, 2012
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2012
Ohio State University professor and new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) co-chair Peter Swire is attempting to create a standard way to let users stop Web sites...CNet From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2012
Nvidia may be flying high on its tablet wins, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a real mobile player.CNET From ACM News | November 21, 2012