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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Ari Juels, an independent researcher who was previously chief scientist at computer security company RSA, thinks something important is missing from the cryptography...Technology Review From ACM News | January 31, 2014
PlaceAvoider is software that uses computer-vision techniques to identify potentially confidential or embarrassing pictures taken with new devices such as Google...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 30, 2014
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition...Technology Review From ACM News | December 6, 2013
The recent leaks of U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs could inspire authoritarian governments in developing economies to boost NSA-style...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2013
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.Technology Review From ACM News | November 11, 2013
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2013
Computer hardware into which secret backdoors have been inserted by the U.S. National Security Agency and its adversaries is a tremendous security problem. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 10, 2013
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 17, 2013
An analysis of the public log of Bitcoin digital currency transactions could enable law enforcement to pinpoint user identities. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2013
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...Technology Review From ACM News | August 14, 2013
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...Technology Review From ACM News | August 13, 2013
Former Enron executive Vincent Kaminski is a modest, semi-retired business school professor from Houston who recently wrote a 960-page book explaining the fundamentals...Technology Review From ACM News | July 3, 2013
In a small, dark, room off a long hallway within a sprawling complex of buildings in Silicon Valley, an array of massive flat-panel displays and video cameras track ...Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2013
For those who find Google Glass indiscreet, electronic contact lenses that outfit the user’s cornea with a display may one day provide an alternative.Technology Review From ACM News | June 7, 2013