Take a close look, because the next generation of military binoculars could be doing more than just letting sailors and soldiers see from far away.Wired From ACM News | February 12, 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
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.Wired From ACM News | February 5, 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
Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls...Wired From ACM News | January 28, 2013
Google's Eric Grosse and Mayank Upadhyay have published a research paper that explores hardware-based alternatives to the traditional password. Wired From ACM TechNews | January 25, 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
Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?Wired From ACM News | January 17, 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
While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 2013
The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher...Wired From ACM News | January 4, 2013
It's been fashionable in military circles to talk about cyberspace as a "fifth domain" for warfare, along with land, space, air, and sea.Wired From ACM News | December 14, 2012
It's been a week since Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire pausing their war in Gaza. But on the internet, a different kind of fighting never stopped—and has actually...Wired From ACM News | November 29, 2012
Freelance security researchers who hunt for exploitable software bugs for cash rewards posted by vendors can sometimes make a decent wage, but some of the largest...Wired News From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2012
The night before the end of Google's Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest security conference this year in Vancouver, a tall teen dressed in khaki shorts, tube socks...Wired From ACM Careers | November 9, 2012
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its...Wired From ACM News | November 1, 2012
The FBI recently put out a mobile malware alert, providing us with a sobering reminder of this "evil software" for phones and tablets.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 25, 2012
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 17, 2012