Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 1, 2012
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 28, 2012
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2012
If you grab the hand of a two-armed robot named Baxter, it will turn its head and a pair of cartoon eyes—displayed on a tablet-size computer-screen "face"—will...The New York Times From ACM News | September 19, 2012
When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around his left leg, lifting it and moving it forward.The New York Times From ACM News | September 13, 2012
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...The New York Times From ACM News | September 11, 2012
Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive...The New York Times From ACM News | August 29, 2012
In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking, and apps for smartphones.The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2012
There are no cars in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Aside from a few trucks, snowmobiles are the preferred form of transportation for much of the year in the hamlet high...The New York Times From ACM News | August 23, 2012
When companies go to trial, as Apple and Samsung have learned, the public gets to hear corporate secrets. Among those revealed:The New York Times From ACM News | August 21, 2012
This week, nine jurors are expected to hunker down in a federal courthouse here to decide a case that could change how the world's smartphones and tablet computers...The New York Times From ACM News | August 20, 2012
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old...The New York Times From ACM News | August 20, 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
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
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers...The New York Times From ACM News | July 12, 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
Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several...The New York Times From ACM News | June 26, 2012