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
Federal courts have long given the government leeway to surveil and collect so-called "non-content" data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails...Wired From ACM News | November 13, 2015
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...Wired From ACM News | October 5, 2015
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.Wired From ACM News | September 16, 2015
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2015
Memex is a search engine under development that is being designed to access the Dark Web to help law enforcement track illegal activity. Wired News From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2015
A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement...Wired From ACM News | February 11, 2015
Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...Wired From ACM Careers | August 8, 2014
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...Wired From ACM News | July 16, 2014
Washington DC-area residents with a hankering for lion meat lost a valuable source of the (yes, legal) delicacy last year when a restaurant called the Serbian Crown...Wired From ACM Careers | July 11, 2014
At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...Wired From ACM News | May 28, 2014
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...Wired From ACM News | March 28, 2014
The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter.Wired From ACM News | March 27, 2014
Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet.Wired From ACM News | March 25, 2014