Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, got...The New York Times From ACM News | June 3, 2015
The Supreme Court on Monday made it harder to prosecute people for threats made on Facebook and other social media, reversing the conviction of a Pennsylvania man...The New York Times From ACM News | June 2, 2015
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 26, 2015
In an engineering laboratory here, a robot has learned to screw the cap on a bottle, even figuring out the need to apply a subtle backward twist to find the thread...The New York Times From ACM News | May 22, 2015
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...The New York Times From ACM News | May 12, 2015
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right direction...The New York Times From ACM News | May 12, 2015
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...The New York Times From ACM News | May 5, 2015
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...The New York Times From ACM News | May 4, 2015
"This is a really new birthplace of stars," Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, said of the new image, which shows a cluster...The New York Times From ACM News | April 27, 2015
Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...The New York Times From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer at IOActive Labs, says "smart city" technologies are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2015
An imposingly realistic vision of the old 1 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed north tower, will begin appearing next month in a most unlikely place: the...The New York Times From ACM News | April 21, 2015
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...The New York Times From ACM News | April 21, 2015
The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft,...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 15, 2015
Armies of the finest minds in computer science have dedicated themselves to improving the odds of making a sale.The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 10, 2015
Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams in her online courses this semester, her instructors sent emails directing students...The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 9, 2015
When technology executives imagine the boogeyman, they see a baby-face guy in wire-rim glasses. His name is Jay Edelson.The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 9, 2015
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...The New York Times From ACM News | April 7, 2015
Shariq Hashme squints at his laptop screen as he scrolls through hundreds of lines of computer code.The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 6, 2015