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From ACM TechNewsCarnegie Mellon University| March 21, 2023
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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
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
The 310 SUGV is a distant cousin of the Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner currently being promoted as a Father's Day gift. In Afghanistan, the Marines call him...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 14, 2012
When next winter's storms subside, a specialized ship will begin a slow crossing, lowering a skinny cable into its wake along a precisely prescribed path: the shortest...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 31, 2012
Putting U.S. astronauts aboard private spacecraft originally was intended to accelerate the pace and slash the cost of manned exploration. But now, National Aeronautics...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 18, 2012
Someday, if the dreams of movie-technology designers come true, you'll flash your smartphone ticket, settle into your plush cinema seat and be greeted with a hyper...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 10, 2012
As companies increasingly allow workers to use personal smartphones and tablets on the job, they are confronting a potential new security threat: malicious software...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 9, 2012
It is called an advanced persistent threat, and if it sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, that's because it pretty much is.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 4, 2012
Julie Barbour-Issa calls her eight-year-old cellphone "the dinosaur. It's a brick, and I could use it as a weapon in an emergency," says the 30-year-old Norwood...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 28, 2012
The supercomputer in this southern boomtown is named Nebulae for the interstellar clouds of gas that give birth to stars.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 27, 2012
Google Inc. is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 15, 2012
Federal prosecutors brought charges against a group of men allegedly behind "LulzSec"—a globe-spanning collective of computer hackers who wreaked havoc on companies...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 7, 2012