President Barack Obama defended his administration’s data-gathering programs Friday, calling them necessary for national security and well within the bounds of...Politico From ACM News | June 7, 2013
China has been the target of serious cyberattacks from the United States, but Beijing has never blamed Washington or the Pentagon because such accusations would...China Daily From ACM News | June 7, 2013
Google released a research paper this week showing that the frequency of a movie being searched for on Google and YouTube is a surprisingly accurate indicator of...NBC News From ACM News | June 7, 2013
U.S. spy chief James Clapper has strongly defended government surveillance programmes after revelations of phone records being collected and internet servers being...BBC News From ACM News | June 7, 2013
The French National Research Agency is funding research on new forms of cooperation in and between wireless body area networks.FierceBroadbandWireless From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2013
The revelation that the Obama administration is pursuing a massive surveillance program that tracks countless U.S. and international phone calls has brought privacy...Politico From ACM News | June 6, 2013
Controversy is raging over a court order allowing the FBI and the National Security Agency to seize aggregate information of millions of Verizon customer phone...NPR From ACM News | June 6, 2013
A growing number of tools and strategies are available to make computers and digital content accessible to people with disabilities.Neil Savage From ACM News | June 6, 2013
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 6, 2013
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...The Guardian From ACM News | June 6, 2013
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.BBC News From ACM News | June 5, 2013
The camera pushes in. And there, near the meridian line, you see a faint scattering of red lights. Something is in the tar. And it's glowing.NPR From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2013
The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 5, 2013
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.The New York Times From ACM News | June 4, 2013
Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light...Time From ACM News | June 4, 2013
Supreme Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati, who is also a candidate in Iran's presidential election, hailed the Iranian IT engineers and experts for their good...Fars News Agency From ACM News | June 4, 2013
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500...NBC News From ACM Careers | June 4, 2013
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...The New York Times From ACM News | June 3, 2013