Security researchers pretty much uniformly agree that letting people vote online is a very bad idea, one that is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities that could...Wired From ACM News | March 21, 2016
Three years ago, Ladar Levison, the founder of the now-defunct secure email service known as Lavabit, was in the same position Apple finds itself today: facing...Wired From ACM News | March 21, 2016
It's been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely ...Wired From ACM News | March 18, 2016
The move didn't make sense to the humans packed into the sixth floor of Seoul's Four Seasons hotel. But the Google machine saw it quite differently.Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2016
You're buying a pair of jeans. At the register, instead of reaching for your wallet or phone, you pull back your hair.Wired From ACM News | March 9, 2016
It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the...Wired From ACM News | March 4, 2016
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2016
In 2012, IBM Watson went to medical school. So said The New York Times, announcing that the tech giant’s artificially intelligent question-and-answer machine had...Wired From ACM News | February 16, 2016
A network surveillance and security issues expert built a miniature bulk surveillance system like the one used by the U.S. National Security Agency.Wired From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2016
The future of artificial intelligence and its acceptance by people may lie in giving it the ability to master small talk, as embodied by Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot...Wired From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2016
It was the talk most anticipated at this year's inaugural Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers were eager to...Wired From ACM News | January 29, 2016
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.Wired From ACM News | January 21, 2016
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.Wired From ACM News | January 15, 2016
The NFL may be the most popular and profitable major sport in America, but until recently, it's lagged behind other leagues in sophisticated use of data analysis...Wired From ACM News | January 14, 2016
Swarms of inexpensive, expendable U.S. Navy robots will leave the laboratory this summer to be tested in the field. Wired From ACM TechNews | January 11, 2016
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 2016