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
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
A study of malware operating on corporate and government networks suggests that the communication patterns of these programs could warn of major conflicts.Technology Review From ACM News | August 11, 2014
A new breed of mobile wireless device does not need a battery or other energy storage to send data over Wi-Fi. Researchers have developed prototype gadgets that...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2014
Yahoo Labs researchers aim to achieve a truly computational understanding of human society by analyzing the links that form on social networks. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2014
Sean Murray, one of the creators of the computer game No Man's Sky, can't guarantee that the virtual universe he is building is infinite, but he's certain that,...Technology Review From ACM News | July 24, 2014
Researchers have uncovered Duqu, an unusual form of steganography-based malware that embeds itself in Microsoft Windows machines.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2014
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...Technology Review From ACM News | July 21, 2014
A San Francisco neurosurgeon says he is working toward building a wireless brain-machine interface that could translate brain signals directly into audible speech...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2014
Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation?Technology Review From ACM News | July 10, 2014
For more than a decade, engineers have been fretting that they are running out of tricks for continuing to shrink silicon transistors.Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2014
Researchers have developed machine-learning software that can identify crowdturfing, a term for falsifying one's popularity on social media sites. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 3, 2014
One of the great benefits of quantum communication is the ability to send messages from one point in space to another with perfect security.Technology Review From ACM News | June 30, 2014
The big announcements at Google's I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday didn't mention Web search, the technology that got the company started and made it so successful...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2014
Private information can be obtained from encrypted communications using a technique known as traffic analysis to find patterns in the data stream. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 25, 2014