You know when you dial a number, and a man reads you the exact time at the tone? That precise timekeeping starts at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.NPR From ACM Careers | July 7, 2014
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...NPR From ACM News | May 29, 2014
The U.S. government has long complained about Chinese hacking and cyberattacks, but new documents show that the National Security Agency managed to penetrate the...NPR From ACM Opinion | April 3, 2014
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.NPR From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2013
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...NPR From ACM News | October 1, 2013
The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...NPR From ACM News | September 27, 2013
Controversy is raging over a court order allowing the FBI and the National Security Agency to seize aggregate information of millions of Verizon customer phone...NPR From ACM News | June 6, 2013
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...NPR From ACM News | May 24, 2013
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...NPR From ACM News | February 13, 2013
The world's fastest supercomputers have come back to the U.S. In June, the title was claimed by a machine named Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Monday, at the...NPR From ACM News | November 1, 2012
David Wineland is the American half of the scientific duo celebrating the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday.NPR From ACM News | October 10, 2012
Experts predict that our cars will one day routinely "talk" to one another with wireless communication devices, possibly preventing huge numbers of traffic accidents...NPR From ACM News | August 22, 2012
The Federal Aviation Administration is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar upgrade of the nation's air traffic control system.NPR From ACM News | August 15, 2012