New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?Alex Wright From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2013
The debate rages on about whether crowdsourcing is a win-win for workers, as well as for employers.Paul Hyman From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove twice as far on July 21 as on any other day of the mission so far: 109.7 yards (100.3 meters).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 24, 2013
Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...Research at Google From ACM News | July 24, 2013
To its defenders, Intellectual Ventures is a revolutionary company unfairly viewed, in the words of its co-founder Peter N. Detkin, "as the poster child of everything...The New York Times From ACM News | July 23, 2013
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...The Associated Press From ACM News | July 22, 2013
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...GigaOm From ACM News | July 22, 2013
When Timothy P. Murray crashed his government-issued Ford Crown Victoria in 2011, he was fortunate, as car accidents go.The New York Times From ACM News | July 22, 2013
We currently use atomic clocks to count the seconds, but tests on an alternative atomic timekeeper have revealed that it is more precise.BBC News From ACM News | July 19, 2013
A pair of new papers report measurements of the Martian atmosphere's composition by NASA's Curiosity rover, providing evidence about loss of much of Mars' original...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 19, 2013
Taiwan is the frontline in an emerging global battle for cyberspace, according to elite hackers in the island's IT industry, who say it has become a rehearsal area...Reuters From ACM News | July 19, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
According to Lynette Jones, a senior research scientist in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, your skin has about as many sensory receptors as your eyeballs...Wired From ACM News | July 18, 2013
In the early 1970s, the U.S. government learned that an undersea cable ran parallel to the Kuril Islands off the eastern coast of Russia, providing a vital communications...The Atlantic From ACM News | July 18, 2013
The first thing Bruce Levy did upon recent entry into Yankee Stadium while accompanied by his in-laws and teenage son was to purchase a program in the area of the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
Graphene, an emerging material that could change the way electronic components are made and help computing performance continue to grow, is everywhere in the research...GigaOm From ACM News | July 17, 2013
The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer (about 0.62 mile).Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 17, 2013