Drone pilots escape the physical demands and dangers of a traditional cockpit. There's no g-force pinning them to their seats, no uncomfortable pressure suit to...NBC News From ACM Careers | April 24, 2013
Since the bombs went off in Boston's Copley Square on Monday, the FBI and Boston Police Department have been enlisting the public's help with what may be the world's...NBC News From ACM News | April 19, 2013
When bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday, there were nearly as many camera-equipped smartphones as people there in Copley Square.NBC News From ACM News | April 17, 2013
An attempt to illegally obtain absentee ballots in Florida last year is the first known case in the U.S. of a cyberattack against an online election system, according...NBC News From ACM News | March 18, 2013
Appearing like a retro-futuristic apparition, digitally transmitted through pneumatic tubes from a future that was but will never be, the disembodied head of Kim...NBC News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
High-tech telephones common on many workplace desks in the U.S. can be hacked and turned into eavesdropping devices, researchers at Columbia University have discovered...NBC News From ACM News | January 4, 2013
The world is producing and storing data at such a rate that the day isn't far off when we will literally no longer have a proper way of describing it.NBC News From ACM News | December 17, 2012
For decades scientists have backed the idea of sending robots to collect Martian rocks and return them to Earth, a project that should be possible well before humans...NBC News From ACM Opinion | November 5, 2012
The good news about voting technologyis that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate...NBC News From ACM News | October 18, 2012
The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully...NBC News From ACM News | October 3, 2012
It's been a rough year for passwords. First, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online. Soon after, millions of passwords from eHarmony and Yahoo users...NBC News From ACM News | September 27, 2012
The death of first moonwalker Neil Armstrong and the success of NASA's Curiosity rover have reignited interest in the idea of taking a spin on the moon and Mars...NBC News From ACM News | September 4, 2012
Newly received images from NASA's Curiosity rover are filling out the high-resolution view of its surroundings at Gale Crater on Mars—and providing an up-close...NBC News From ACM News | August 17, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover is almost fully reprogrammed for its two-year, $2.5 billion science mission on Mars, and mission managers say it should be ready to take...NBC News From ACM News | August 14, 2012
Imagine a day when virtual reality gets so good that you could take a computer-generated walk on the Martian surface, right here on Earth.NBC News From ACM News | August 1, 2012
Anyone who's looked at the "Seven Minutes of Terror" trailer for next month's Mars landing might have wondered whether the planners behind NASA's $2.5 billion Mars...NBC News From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2012