When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Ark., one Sunday morning last November, they discovered Victor Collins's dead body in the backyard.
The Washington Post From ACM News | December 29, 2016
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | December 19, 2016
What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden in mysterious tunnels...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 7, 2016
Bloch was the first U.S. National Science Foundation director to come from a business rather than academic background, and the first without a doctoral degree. ...The Washington Post From ACM News | November 29, 2016
Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2016
Federal officials delivered a landmark ruling in favor of online privacy Thursday, limiting how Internet providers use and sell customer data, while asserting that...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 28, 2016
When a user sends someone a message through Apple's iMessage feature, Apple encrypts that message between Apple devices so that only the sender and recipient can...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 4, 2016
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Monday announced plans to aggressively influence the launch of driverless car technology. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2016
Many New York-area commuters on Monday were interrupted by this alert on their cellphones: "WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male. See media for pic. Call 9...The Washington Post From ACM News | September 20, 2016
Whenever a new iPhone gets announced, there's one feature that every Apple lover is hoping for: improved battery life.The Washington Post From ACM News | September 14, 2016
Inside a metal shed in the Tibetan highlands of western China, thousands of microprocessors flank narrow corridors, generating a constant hum and stifling waves...The Washington Post From ACM News | September 13, 2016
Reports this week of Russian intrusions into U.S. election systems have startled many voters, but computer experts are not surprised.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 31, 2016
Automakers are taking divergent approaches to the development and deployment of driverless vehicles.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | August 26, 2016
Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.The Washington Post From ACM News | August 22, 2016
Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 16, 2016
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 15, 2016
Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft....The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | July 25, 2016
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 11, 2016