Engineer Matt King is blind and works on Facebook's accessibility team, which helps the service make it easier for the visually impaired to interact with it.San Jose Mercury News From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2015
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 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
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
Now at a critical juncture in its quest to become a superpower, China is turning to Western regions like the Silicon Valley for help with its next technical leap...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | June 11, 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
Technology firms have tripled their recruitment of foreign workers this spring after a hiring lull of several years—a development that is reigniting the debate...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | May 24, 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
Twenty-one years after he set foot in the United States, Facebook engineer Wei Zhu was overjoyed to take his oath of citizenship Wednesday at a special Silicon...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 23, 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
As Wikipedia and other Websites go dark Wednesday in what backers are calling the largest Internet protest ever, the epic battle between Silicon Valley and Hollywood...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | January 18, 2012
Whether or not Google makes any blockbuster announcements at its annual developers conference that starts Tuesday—a news report on Monday said it may unveil its...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 10, 2011
A study of highly educated Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs who leave tech hubs like Silicon Valley to return to their homeland to launch startups reports that...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 9, 2011
Lu Miao speaks very little English. He's never traveled outside of Asia. He's not a software engineer. But in a few short months, he became the founder of a successful...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | May 9, 2011
Google may appear to be under siege in China, but a sense of normalcy—Google style—pervades the company's headquarters here.San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | April 29, 2011