This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the...Technology Review From ACM News | November 4, 2014
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2014
After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.Technology Review From ACM News | October 28, 2014
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize.Technology Review From ACM News | October 10, 2014
One of the characteristics of our increasingly information-driven lives is the huge amounts of data being generated about everything from sporting activities and...Technology Review From ACM News | October 10, 2014
A mocked-up set of busy streets in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will provide the sternest test yet for self-driving cars.Technology Review From ACM News | October 7, 2014
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...Technology Review From ACM News | October 1, 2014
A research project at the University of Washington shows a way to add gesture control to phones without requiring sophisticated new sensors.Technology Review From ACM News | September 29, 2014
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.Technology Review From ACM News | September 22, 2014
If you've ever watched soccer, you'll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams.Technology Review From ACM News | September 17, 2014
One of the innovations packed inside the Apple Watch—and highlighted by designer Jony Ive at the company’s grand unveiling this week—is a flexible display.Technology Review From ACM News | September 15, 2014
Back in the 16th century, a Spanish Benedictine monk called Pietro Ponce pioneered the seemingly magical art of lip reading.Technology Review From ACM News | September 12, 2014
Connecting a new home appliance to a personal Wi-Fi network or broadband modem could increase the risk that data will be taken from other computers in the house...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 8, 2014
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 27, 2014
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2014