Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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A Law Apple Would Like to Break
These days, it’s hard to find a superlative that adequately describes Apple. But maybe simplest is best: biggest.
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Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
It wasn't so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny...
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question...
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Flaw Found in an Online Encryption Method
A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online...
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Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
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The Age of Big Data
Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
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In Data Deluge, Multitaskers Go to Multiscreens
Workers in the digital era can feel at times as if they are playing a video game, battling the barrage of emails and instant messages, juggling documents, Web sites...
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Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way—often with noteworthy results.
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For $2 a Star, an Online Retailer Gets 5-Star Product Reviews
In the brutal world of online commerce, where a competing product is just a click away, retailers need all the juice they can get to close a sale.
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Build p Your Phone's Defenses Against Hackers
Chuck Bokath would be terrifying if he were not such a nice guy. A jovial senior engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Mr. Bokath can hack...
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Pursuing Iphone Thief, Officer Knew Right Buttons to Push
As crime-solving tools go, it may not have the same pedigree as, say, the oversize magnifying glass.
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When Self-Driving Cars and the Real World Collide
Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only...
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Sign Says What? Park at Your Peril
Writing is a craft whose basic purpose is to transmit meaning, but there are certain writers who seem to have different goals in mind: patent lawyers, many poets...
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Digitizing Health Records, Before It Was Cool
The push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as something...
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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A Wireless Road Around Data Traffic Jams
The vast data centers that process information for the Facebooks and Amazons of the Web work at a brisk clip. But even so, they can't always keep up.
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New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms
Researchers at I.B.M. have stored and retrieved digital 1s and 0s from an array of just 12 atoms, pushing the boundaries of the magnetic storage of information...
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Google Adds Posts From Its Social Network to Search Results
Google's popularity was built on its ability to help people find just the right Web pages. Then came the social Web, led by Facebook, where people go to see vast...
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The Critics Rave... For Microsoft?
"Gorgeous," raves The Huffington Post. "Best-looking smartphone operating system in the industry," gushes Slate. "Far superior to most if not all the Android...
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