Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.Technology Review From ACM News | September 6, 2013
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...Wired From ACM News | September 6, 2013
In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...Threatpost From ACM News | September 6, 2013
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.Nature From ACM News | September 4, 2013
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...BBC News From ACM News | September 4, 2013
At some point in the coming weeks, users of Apple iPhones and iPads will wake up to an alert that there is a new version of the company's mobile operating system...NPR From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2013
Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...The Next Web From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2013
The European Union-funded ADEPT project is exploring the energy-efficient use of parallel technologies. ADEPT aims to help high-performance computing software...HPC Wire From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2013
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 30, 2013
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...Threatpost From ACM News | August 30, 2013
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | August 29, 2013
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...Technology Review From ACM News | August 29, 2013
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 29, 2013
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 29, 2013
University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send...niversity of Washington From ACM News | August 28, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 28, 2013
Just weeks after The Washington Post had our own run-in with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the New York Times is down, and the SEA is claiming responsibility...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 28, 2013
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2013
Venus is like a reclusive celebrity that gets the public's attention every couple of years, though in the planet's case it's more like every century.ABC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013