New research renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Wired From ACM News | November 19, 2020
Researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an Internet-connected billboard.
Wired From ACM News | October 20, 2020
From surveillance to arrests, governments are using the novel coronavirus as cover for a crackdown on digital liberty.
Wired From ACM News | October 16, 2020
Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev found they could fool Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance systems into automatically reacting without...Wired From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2020
The Cyber Threat Intelligence League aims to protect hospitals and health systems around the world from cyberattacks as they deal with Covid-19 cases.
Wired From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2020
Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year's seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street...Wired From ACM News | September 23, 2020
The success of lidar companies was unclear until this summer, when three leading makers offered glimpses of their finances.
Wired From ACM News | September 14, 2020
Researchers at Germany's Münster University of Applied Sciences found smartwatch brands marketed for children are exploitable, based on years of similar findings...Wired From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2020
The Police Data Accessibility Project aims to request, download, clean, and standardize public records that right now are overly difficult to find.
Wired From ACM News | July 9, 2020
Companies and programmers are reexamining how technical terms are used amid Black Lives Matter protests. But some worry the changes are empty symbolism.
Wired From ACM News | July 7, 2020
The administration said the move will give U.S. workers access to an additional 525,000 jobs. But sectors with lots of H-1B visas tend to have low unemployment....Wired From ACM News | June 24, 2020
Quantum computers used to be an impossible dream. Now, after a decade of research by some of the world's biggest tech companies, they're on the verge of changing...Wired (U.K.) From ACM News | May 18, 2020
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Wired From ACM News | May 12, 2020
Researchers at Google have developed a robotic dog and taught it to walk by showing it motion-capture videos of real dogs walking on treadmills.
Wired From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2020
A new robotic skeleton is embedded with 32 photodiodes and 30 adjacent LEDs, and is covered by a squishy skin of reflective silicone that keeps the device's own...Wired From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2020