An eight-petaflop Japanese supercomputer grabbed the title of fastest computer on earth in the new Top 500 Supercomputing List officially unveiled at the International...Thinq From ACM News | June 21, 2011
Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air...The New York Times From ACM News | June 20, 2011
NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important...NASA From ACM News | June 17, 2011
Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 17, 2011
The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new...Reuters From ACM News | June 17, 2011
A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2011
When Air France flight 447 crashed on a stormy night off Brazil in 2009, it took its secrets with it to the bottom of the Atlantic. There was no distress call...ABC News From ACM News | June 14, 2011
Intel researchers are developing a method to automate the process of writing device drivers and porting them to different operating systems. The Register From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2011
A new technique for using multicore chips more efficiently has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU). NCSU News From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2011
I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications from...The New York Times From ACM News | June 10, 2011
Observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest deep space sentinels, suggest the edge of our solar system may not be smooth, but filled with...NASA From ACM News | June 10, 2011
The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers...Threatpost From ACM News | June 9, 2011
NASA's next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial, and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit released...Wired From ACM News | June 9, 2011
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...Network World From ACM News | June 8, 2011
Air France Flight 447 stalled high over the Atlantic Ocean and plunged into the sea even as the pilots repeatedly tried to pull the nose up—a reaction opposite...Wired From ACM News | June 8, 2011
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is facing cost overruns and years of delay before it launches, but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of scientists...National Public Radio From ACM News | June 8, 2011
A quantum computer is a device—still largely theoretical—that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 7, 2011
RSA Security is offering to provide security monitoring or replace its well-known SecurID tokens—devices used by millions of corporate workers to securely log...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | June 7, 2011