ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it has signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names...CNET From ACM News | July 15, 2013
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
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
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
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
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.CNET From ACM News | October 26, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.CNET From ACM Careers | October 19, 2012