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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.
This has been the crossover year for Big Data—as a concept, as a term, and, yes, as a marketing tool.The New York Times From ACM News | August 15, 2012
Last week, Starbucks joined forces with Square, a technology start-up that lets you pay for things with a smartphone. Coming from a company whose cafes seem to...The New York Times From ACM News | August 14, 2012
When Google imagines the future of Web search, it sees a search engine that understands human meaning and not just words, that can have a spoken conversation with...The New York Times From ACM News | August 9, 2012
Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature...The New York Times From ACM News | July 31, 2012
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2012
The top American military official responsible for defending the United States against cyberattacks said Thursday that there had been a 17-fold increase in computer...The New York Times From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. The New York Times From ACM News | July 25, 2012
MIT professor Anant Agarwal recently completed teaching Circuits and Electronics, the first course in MITx, a massive open online learning platform from MIT, which...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | July 24, 2012
The video is called "Seven Minutes of Terror," and describes, with the suspense and cinematography of a movie preview, what will happen next month when a one-ton...The New York Times From ACM News | July 11, 2012
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.The New York Times From ACM News | July 10, 2012
The military has long needed computers that are tough enough on the outside to withstand the rough and tumble of the battlefield. Now, with the proliferation of...The New York Times From ACM News | June 25, 2012
In what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your email compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications—from...The New York Times From ACM News | June 18, 2012
That little iPhone in your pocket is perfectly positioned to become a clone of the credit cards in your wallet or purse.The New York Times From ACM News | June 12, 2012
As a professor and a parent, I have long dreamed of finding a software program that helps every student learn to write well.The New York Times From ACM News | June 11, 2012
When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers...The New York Times From ACM News | June 4, 2012
At 7:22:07 p.m. on a recent Thursday, an electronic alarm went off in the soundproof control room of a suburban office building here.The New York Times From ACM News | May 29, 2012