Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 23, 2013
Here's the fundamental problem with passwords: They are most effective in protecting a company when they are long, complicated and changed frequently. In other...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 17, 2013
In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 10, 2013
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 29, 2013
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 16, 2013
The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | August 15, 2013
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 2, 2013
In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 1, 2013
To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 30, 2013
"It's extraordinary that we live in this day and age with all our wonderful modern technology, and still we have shoes that give us blisters," says Hugh Herr, with...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 17, 2013
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 8, 2013
Huawei Technologies Co. has made a name supplying network equipment to clients world-wide, but the Chinese company's emphasis on research and development over manufacturing...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 8, 2013
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
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that human genes isolated from the body can't be patented, a victory for doctors and patients who argued that such...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 13, 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