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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.
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small...The New York Times From ACM News | May 14, 2012
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a...The New York Times From ACM News | May 8, 2012
People generally talk less on the phone and send fewer text messages now because there are so many ways to communicate over an Internet connection. Though this...The New York Times From ACM News | May 7, 2012
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...The New York Times From ACM News | May 1, 2012
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for...The New York Times From ACM News | May 1, 2012
The thorny privacy issues of tomorrow were on display Thursday morning, when AT&T showed off a batch of technologies under development at AT&T Labs, the company’s...The New York Times From ACM News | April 20, 2012
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...The New York Times From ACM News | April 17, 2012
In the event of another disaster at a nuclear power plant, the first responders may not be humans but robots.The New York Times From ACM News | April 10, 2012
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...The New York Times From ACM News | April 9, 2012
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from "Star Trek," don’t worry.The New York Times From ACM News | April 5, 2012
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials...The New York Times From ACM News | April 2, 2012
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to see an alternative to passwords and is supporting work that would confirm a computer user's identity...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 19, 2012
During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure...The New York Times From ACM News | March 14, 2012
Think how convenient it would be if you could recharge electronic devices without ever having to plug them in—or even take them out of your briefcase.The New York Times From ACM News | March 12, 2012
Did Google Maps almost cause a war in 2010? On Nov. 3 of that year, Edén Pastora, the Nicaraguan official tasked with dredging the Rio San Juan, justified his country's...The New York Times From ACM News | March 8, 2012
Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now.
The New York Times From ACM News | March 7, 2012