John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn’t know what he’d be working on.Wired From ACM News | April 5, 2013
With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space, and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world, Hong Kong...Wired K From ACM News | March 25, 2013
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.Wired From ACM Careers | March 18, 2013
As Iran met in Kazakhstan this week with members of the UN Security Council to discuss its nuclear program, researchers announced that a new variant of the sophisticated...Wired From ACM News | February 27, 2013
For the first time, America's top-of-the-line F-22 fighters and Britain's own cutting-edge Typhoon jets have come together for intensive, long-term training in...Wired From ACM News | February 21, 2013
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.Wired From ACM News | February 6, 2013
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2013
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server...Wired From ACM News | January 29, 2013
Just imagine if all the applications and services you saw or heard about at CES earlier this month had to be designed to be "wiretap ready" before they could be...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2013
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...Wired From ACM News | January 10, 2013
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the "Mark of the Beast" because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip...Wired From ACM News | January 9, 2013
Congratulations, Barack Obama: You have prevailed in the nerdiest election in the history of the American Republic.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 7, 2012
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...Wired From ACM News | October 19, 2012
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.Wired From ACM News | October 18, 2012
In the years to come, a top group of military scientists believe, the Pentagon may be able to use genomics and bio-markers to spot when a soldier is about to snap...Wired From ACM News | October 15, 2012
The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the...Wired From ACM News | October 9, 2012
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.Wired From ACM News | September 28, 2012