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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found...Wired From ACM News | August 9, 2012
Researchers at Disney have demonstrated a computer interface that changes the way ordinary, everyday objects feel using a weak electric signal fed through a user's...Technology Review From ACM News | August 9, 2012
Look around your office hallway or college campus and you'll see people holding interactive panes of glass.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 9, 2012
In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked...Technology Review From ACM News | August 8, 2012
Do not envy the life of a Web app. It's a brutal, public existence filled with attacks from all sides. In fact, a new report by Imperva sheds some light on this...Threatpost From ACM News | August 8, 2012
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 8, 2012
Anyone who has tried to build a piece of furniture from scratch knows the frustration of painstakingly cutting pieces of wood, only to discover that they won't...MIT News Office From ACM News | August 8, 2012
The federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision...Wired From ACM News | August 8, 2012
On Sunday, it was a hijacked Reuters Twitter feed trying to create the impression of a rebel collapse in Aleppo. On Monday, it was another account purporting to...Reuters From ACM News | August 7, 2012
The escalating dependence on drone pilots, as Maj. Dave Blair agonized in the May-June issue ofAir & Space Power Journal, is undercutting the ability to award combat...Slate From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2012
On Earth, Scott Maxwell drives his red Prius without paying much attention to the San Gabriel Mountains in the distance.CNN From ACM Opinion | August 6, 2012
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 6, 2012
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 6, 2012
Assuming it safely passes through its terrifying and complex descent sequence, NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, should get its wheels on the Martian surface in just...Wired From ACM News | August 3, 2012
Do we really need a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi thriller Total Recall? No, but Hollywood is giving us one anyway, this time with Colin Farrell in the...Time From ACM News | August 3, 2012
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...Technology Review From ACM News | August 3, 2012
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 3, 2012
On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding...ArsTechnica From ACM News | August 3, 2012