Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 12, 2015
Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 2, 2015
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2015
Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 19, 2015
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2014
Year-end technology prediction lists can be dull fodder devoted to pie-in-the-sky concepts, outlandish marketing claims or rehashes of familiar trends.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 8, 2014
During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 19, 2014
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2014
D-Wave Systems, which has been developing a radically different kind of computer since 1999, has installed a grand total of two systems outside its premises. But...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 14, 2014
The New York Police Department's Facebook page has taken on a role that was once largely limited to the city's press corps: publishing news articles.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 9, 2014
Graduates around the world gather at the end of spring for one final lesson: the commencement speech.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 3, 2014
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2014
Recent research has shown the "uncanny valley" hypothesis for human-robot interaction is overstated.The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2014
Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 25, 2014
Regardless of what caused a Malaysia Airlines jet to disappear from the sky over the weekend, air-safety experts predict it will reignite debate over new technology...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 11, 2014