Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called...Technology Review From ACM News | May 27, 2011
Hasso Plattner Institute researchers have developed a system that enables iPhone users to perform actions on their devices without actually holding the phone. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2011
Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering...Technology Review From ACM News | May 23, 2011
Media, search engines, advertisers and social networks have been tracking what you click since the birth of the Web, but this measurement yields an incomplete...Technology Review From ACM News | May 20, 2011
Big technology companies like Netflix and Facebook make clever use of the digital traces we leave online: their algorithms can make connections between data and...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2011
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.Technology Review From ACM News | May 13, 2011
Sitting in the left-field upper deck to watch the San Francisco Giants play baseball on May 11 would cost you eight bucks if you'd bought the ticket in late April...Technology Review From ACM News | May 5, 2011
In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons...Technology Review From ACM News | April 18, 2011
Obsolescence is the curse of electronics: no sooner have you bought a gadget than its hardware is outdated. A new, low cost type of microchip that can rearrange...Technology Review From ACM News | April 18, 2011
They're the scourge of the Internet—networks containing thousands or even millions of virus-infected, remote-controlled PCs. These so-called "botnets" send out...Technology Review From ACM News | April 13, 2011
Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a cell phone using just your thoughts. Their new brain-computer interface is almost 100 percent...Technology Review From ACM News | April 12, 2011
The most important function of the brain is figuring out what to ignore: Research suggests that we can process only about one percent of the visual information...Technology Review From ACM News | April 11, 2011
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...Technology Review From ACM News | April 7, 2011
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2011
Over the past 15 years, Web-based applications have gradually replaced those based on other networking protocols for everything from personal communications to...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2011
Most data networks could be faster, more energy efficient, and more secure. But network hardware—switches, routers, and other devices—is essentially locked down...Technology Review From ACM News | March 31, 2011
An ambitious attempt by Google to shift the Web over to a new, royalty-free video format has taken significant strides. New software has been released that can...Technology Review From ACM News | March 31, 2011