This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....The New York Times From ACM News | January 27, 2011
At the aptly named Tiny Thai restaurant here, a small table, about two and a half feet square, was jammed with a teapot, two plates of curry, a bowl of soup,...The New York Times From ACM News | January 20, 2011
When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a ...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...The New York Times From ACM News | January 18, 2011
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.The New York Times From ACM News | January 7, 2011
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.The New York Times From ACM News | December 30, 2010
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...The New York Times From ACM News | December 29, 2010
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...The New York Times From ACM News | December 28, 2010
Anyone who has witnessed the megapixel one-upmanship in camera ads might think that computer chips run the show in digital photography.The New York Times From ACM News | December 23, 2010
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using email.The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2010
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...The New York Times From ACM News | December 17, 2010
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents...The New York Times From ACM News | December 16, 2010
An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz...The New York Times From ACM News | December 15, 2010
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...The New York Times From ACM News | December 14, 2010
In a world that is always on camera, the centuries-old courtroom experience is becoming a lot more complicated.The New York Times From ACM News | December 9, 2010
A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks,...The New York Times From ACM News | December 8, 2010
The government warns Americans to closely guard their Social Security numbers. But it has done a poor job of protecting those same numbers for millions of people...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2010
I met a man with seven wives. ...” You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts...The New York Times From ACM News | December 7, 2010
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top...The New York Times From ACM News | December 6, 2010