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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.
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.The Atlantic From ACM News | May 6, 2015
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment...The Atlantic From ACM News | March 31, 2015
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...The Atlantic From ACM News | February 9, 2015
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
As far as intelligence agencies go, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has remained relatively low profile—attracting neither the intrigue of, say, the...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 20, 2014
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.The Atlantic From ACM News | August 21, 2014
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 21, 2014
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2014
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.The Atlantic From ACM News | April 28, 2014
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 12, 2014
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
Beijing's surveillance network, one of the most extensive and invasive in the world, has been compromised by an unexpected foe: smog.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 6, 2013
Say you're at a gas station. Say you're buying some supplies—bottled water, coffee, maybe some M&Ms—before you head back to your car.The Atlantic From ACM News | November 4, 2013
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...The Atlantic From ACM News | October 25, 2013
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 20, 2013