For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 4, 2012
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.New Scientist From ACM News | October 4, 2012
Technical University of Wroclaw researchers have developed an algorithm that reduces the complexity involved in comparing two documents by merging a computationally...PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2012
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 1, 2012
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...AllThingsD From ACM News | September 27, 2012
It's been a rough year for passwords. First, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online. Soon after, millions of passwords from eHarmony and Yahoo users...NBC News From ACM News | September 27, 2012
U.S. counterterrorism efforts monitor and sort vast databases of information for clues on potential plots. Now a team of University of Maryland researchers have...The Baltimore Sun From ACM News | September 27, 2012
Hugo Campos has a cardiac defibrillator implanted in his body. It sends data about his heart to his doctors and back to the manufacturer, but it takes days to get...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 27, 2012
Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those...The Financial Times From ACM News | September 25, 2012
Facebook on Friday confronted a new obstacle over what to do with one of its most vital assets—pictures.The New York Times From ACM News | September 25, 2012
Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the...Reuters From ACM News | September 24, 2012
Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...NPR From ACM Careers | September 24, 2012
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.Neil Savage From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2012
It's not easy to give over 1.3 billion people access to the internet—especially if that population is spread across a vast area that ranges from hinterland to sprawling...New Scientist From ACM News | September 18, 2012
The Internet tools of the Arab Spring have become the weapons of a new Arabian nightmare playing out at American diplomatic missions across North Africa and the...Politico From ACM News | September 14, 2012
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view.The Atlantic From ACM News | September 12, 2012
Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia...The Atlantic From ACM News | September 11, 2012
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...The New York Times From ACM News | September 11, 2012
Reshaped and renamed by generations of developers and gentrifiers, the borders of New York City’s neighborhoods are often hazy at best. Yesterday's Chinatown is...The New York Times From ACM News | September 10, 2012