Even the state of California can't quite figure out what the bitcoin Internet currency phenomenon is all about—or whether it's legal in California.The San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | July 1, 2013
Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, and...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | May 31, 2013
It was a high-tech speed-dating session, Silicon Valley-style: I would sit in the storied memorabilia-laden Room 2306 in the bowels of PARC, the former Xerox research...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 10, 2013
The days of madly flipping through bilingual phrase books while trying to converse with somebody in another language is fast giving way to a technological alternative...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 8, 2013
The threat is always there—in your car, at the office, on the table next to where you sleep at night: a near-biblical plague of worms, phisher kings, identity thieves...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 14, 2013
Holding everything from highly personal medical and social media material to confidential financial and corporate documents, Internet-based cloud services are gathering...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | March 4, 2013
While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 13, 2013
While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | November 7, 2012
Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | September 20, 2012
Some of chip colossus Intel's biggest customers and partners are exploring a competing microprocessor design, signaling the start of a much-anticipated tech donnybrook...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | July 23, 2012
With technology that would make James Bond envious, Silicon Valley companies are playing a behind-the-scenes role with the nation's most clandestine agencies, helping...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | June 11, 2012
Ever since smartphones got their own bar code scanners, it's become commonplace for store security officers—who carefully monitor surveillance cameras at big box...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 22, 2012
It's hard to find a better example of how technology is revolutionizing patient care than the tiny edible sensor Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City plans to begin...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | March 16, 2012
Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music, and send email. But while their gadgets have been designed to handle increasing amounts...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 27, 2012
Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | January 27, 2012
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as the best place...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Imagine this nightmarish possibility: al-Qaida terrorists remotely disabling the brakes on thousands of cars racing down a Bay Area freeway during the morning...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | December 29, 2011
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | December 6, 2011