On a dark and stormy night two weeks ago in Schenectady, N.Y., Ken Hislop was relaxing at home when his cellphone suddenly began buzzing in his pocket. It was an...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 17, 2013
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure "file transfer protocol," or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 12, 2013
Data collected by the National Security Agency's program that monitors Americans' phone calls could be used to track millions of people's locations through their...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 10, 2013
Mobile phones, wearable devices, and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 20, 2013
Could a virtual currency created by an anonymous Internet hacker someday replace the U.S. dollar?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2013
Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2013
Replete with its own thriving news portals, social media, and gaming sites, the Chinese Internet could take a major step toward becoming fully Chinese by the end...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 12, 2013
The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to "virtual currencies," amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 27, 2013
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | March 27, 2013
In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
Patterns of "Likes" posted by people on Facebook can unintentionally expose their political and religious views, drug use, divorce, and sexual orientation, researchers...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 19, 2013
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 7, 2013
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 21, 2013