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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
There may never be enough hours in the day to get everything done, but at least the forces of nature are conspiring to help out.
The Guardian From ACM News | December 8, 2016
Here's what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That's all I did.
The Guardian From ACM News | December 7, 2016
The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...The Guardian From ACM News | November 30, 2016
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 29, 2016
A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating...The Guardian From ACM News | August 26, 2016
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...The Guardian From ACM News | August 2, 2016
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.The Guardian From ACM News | July 8, 2016
If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past.The Guardian From ACM News | May 25, 2016
Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone...The Guardian From ACM News | April 18, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM News | January 27, 2016
A team of software developers helped solve the problem of distributing wages to healthcare workers fighting the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. The Guardian From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2016
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...The Guardian From ACM News | July 17, 2015
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
Within the salons of the Elysée Palace, along the corridors of the European parliament and under the glass dome of the Reichstag, Old Europe is preparing for a...The Guardian From ACM News | July 7, 2014
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2014
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 5, 2014
Cerro Armazones is a crumbling dome of rock that dominates the parched peaks of the Chilean Coast Range north of Santiago.The Guardian From ACM News | April 21, 2014
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...The Guardian From ACM News | April 17, 2014