Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second...The New York Times From ACM News | October 17, 2013
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 17, 2013
A gaggle of Harry Potter fans descended for several days this summer on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for the Leaky Con gathering, an annual haunt of...The New York Times From ACM News | October 16, 2013
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.The New York Times From ACM News | October 15, 2013
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | October 10, 2013
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.The New York Times From ACM News | October 3, 2013
Advocates for the visually impaired say smartphones and tablets could be the most helpful assistive aid to emerge since the invention of Braille. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2013
While private companies are moving forward with self-driving vehicles, the U.S. military has been slow to deploy the technology. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2013
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself," wrote Walt Whitman, America's great bard of self-promotion.The New York Times From ACM News | September 24, 2013
Glenn Fleisig's rather unusual laboratory has a pitcher's mound and a home plate, and when he rigs people up to throw a baseball, their motion is analyzed with...The New York Times From ACM News | September 18, 2013
Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 16, 2013
While Apple talked about a couple of new products on Tuesday, Intel, with much less fanfare, talked about the transformation of a world, and itself.The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 12, 2013
As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough...The New York Times From ACM News | September 10, 2013
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...The New York Times From ACM News | September 3, 2013
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2013
SlamTracker software sifts through 20 years of data to predict how tennis players could perform under various circumstances. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2013