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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 4, 2012
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 1, 2012
The Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca is a 2.2-mile asphalt roller coaster plunging and soaring across California's tawny Monterey highlands.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2012
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago, scientists said Wednesday...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 6, 2012
For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | September 4, 2012
The nonprofit Code for America, a kind of Peace Corps for geeks, has led the way in bringing online efficiency to offline government systems, picking a team of...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2012
Smartphones and other devices keep getting smarter, but that may change if a key step in manufacturing computer chips isn't updated soon.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 29, 2012
Two years ago, hackers gained access to an online voting system created by the District of Columbia and altered every ballot on behalf of their own preferred candidates...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2012
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 17, 2012
I was strolling down the hall to a meeting on a Wednesday afternoon when I suddenly blacked out, coming to a halt.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 10, 2012
When Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. face off in a high-stakes patent trial Monday, there will be another elephant in the room: Google Inc.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 30, 2012
Samsung Electronics Co. recently leapfrogged Apple Inc. as the world's largest seller of smartphones.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 24, 2012
Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 13, 2012
With cybercriminals a greater threat to small businesses than ever before, more entrepreneurs like Lloyd Keilson are left asking themselves who is to blame for...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 11, 2012
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 10, 2012
NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 5, 2012
It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 29, 2012
Scientists at Duke University have built an experimental camera that allows the user—after a photo is taken—to zoom in on portions of the image in extraordinary...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 22, 2012