Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.The New York Times From ACM News | March 6, 2015
A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 2, 2015
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 17, 2015
The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn over secret source code, submit to...The New York Times From ACM News | January 30, 2015
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 16, 2015
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.The New York Times From ACM News | December 17, 2014
Paul Kocher, one of the country's leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world's dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts.The New York Times From ACM News | December 5, 2014
Having tried 3-D films, earsplitting sound systems and even alcohol sales in pursuit of younger moviegoers, some theater chains are now installing undulating seats...The New York Times From ACM News | December 2, 2014
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 1, 2014
Silicon Valley's constant stream of new apps and services depends on hundreds of thousands of foreign-born engineers to help create them.The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 24, 2014
It's one of the most important policy disputes that will determine the future of the Internet, and now President Obama has formally weighed in in favor of so-called ...The New York Times From ACM News | November 11, 2014
The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old's asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an...The New York Times From ACM News | October 17, 2014
For anyone who has wondered how it’s possible to get so much stuff from web companies free or at too-good-to-be-true prices—whether Google searching, Facebook socializing...The New York Times From ACM News | October 14, 2014
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...The New York Times From ACM News | September 23, 2014
College students across the United States have been developing their own apps, sometimes to great success. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2014
Nearly all the hype around virtual reality—much of it fanned by Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, the headset maker—is about how the technology can...The New York Times From ACM News | August 25, 2014
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...The New York Times From ACM News | August 13, 2014