Whether it's our location, contact lists, calendars, photo albums, or search requests, app developers, advertising companies, and other tech firms are scrambling...Slate From ACM News | March 25, 2013
Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.The Associated Press From ACM Careers | March 25, 2013
With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space, and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world, Hong Kong...Wired K From ACM News | March 25, 2013
Scientists in Europe and the United States are moving forward with plans to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a huge nearby asteroid in 2022 to see inside the...Space.com From ACM News | March 25, 2013
Scientists at the Blue Brain Project are using supercomputers to simulate neural connections in a 3-D model of a slice of mammalian brain.Nidhi Subbaraman From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2013
In a new approach to making computers more efficient, called "inexact," "probabilistic," or "approximate" computing, errors are not avoided; they are welcomed....Gary Anthes From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2013
As computational tools open up new ways of understanding history, historians and computer scientists are working together to explore the possibilities.Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2013
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency—worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing.The Guardian From ACM News | March 25, 2013
Radio frequency chip makers are set to gain as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc unveil ever more sophisticated smartphones and tablets to battle for the...Reuters From ACM News | March 25, 2013
The Pentagon's blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves—while...Wired From ACM News | March 22, 2013
The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 22, 2013
A new rapid-fire crowdsourcing program could provide new ways to enhance voice-recognition applications. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2013
YouTube has a billion unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month, equivalent to one out of every two people on the Internet—and the generationsmartphones...The Guardian From ACM Careers | March 22, 2013
On the pilot's computer screen, planted at ground level a few yards from the airport runway here, the data streaming across the display tracked an airplane at 1...The New York Times From ACM News | March 21, 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency has published for the first time "Some Far-Out Thoughts on Computers," a 1962 internal document that shows how eager the agency...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 21, 2013
Wander through the historic streets of the Roman city of Bath in the U.K., and you might sense that they are smarter than average. And you would be right.BBC News From ACM News | March 21, 2013
Like archeologists carefully digging for fossils, scientists with the Planck mission are sifting through cosmic clutter to find the most ancient light in the universe...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 21, 2013
A hacking attack that brought down three South Korean broadcasters and two major banks has been identified by most commentators as North Korea flexing its muscles...Reuters From ACM News | March 21, 2013