Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.Marina Krakovsky From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2012
Just as remarkable as the power of mobility, over everything from love to learning to global development, is how fast it all happened. It is hard to think of any...Time From ACM News | August 20, 2012
When Google imagines the future of Web search, it sees a search engine that understands human meaning and not just words, that can have a spoken conversation with...The New York Times From ACM News | August 9, 2012
The growing use of information and communication technology is generating vast volumes of structured and unstructured data that present an opportunity that European...CORDIS News From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2012
Online behavioral advertising and sophisticated data aggregation have changed the face of advertising and put privacy in the crosshairs.Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2012
The eight-person winning team used original computer algorithms to narrow the search space and then relied on human observation to move the pieces into their final...Tom Geller From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2012
If you're a student of the privacy and tech law worlds (or you just read Ars) then you're probably familiar with last year's Supreme Court decision, Jones v. United...ArsTechnica From ACM News | July 19, 2012
The head of the U.S. spy agency that eavesdrops on electronic communications overseas sought on Monday to reassure Americans that the National Security Agency would...Reuters From ACM News | July 10, 2012
University of Twente researchers are working to make spoken audio material from the past more accessible. The researchers say that a combination of speech recognition...Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research From ACM TechNews | July 9, 2012
Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep his mouth shut.Wired From ACM News | July 6, 2012
Many years ago, long before the birth of the Web, there was a time when France was the happening-est place in the digital universe.BBC News From ACM News | June 28, 2012
Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human.GigaOm From ACM News | June 28, 2012
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...Technology Review From ACM News | June 25, 2012
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2012
University of Southern California researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of using quantum computers to accelerate the process of executing a search engine's...USC News From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2012
In what way do you spend your time online? Do you check your email compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications—from...The New York Times From ACM News | June 18, 2012