There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn't even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents' networks.Wired From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Technical University of Braunschweig researchers have found that smartphones can be joined together in a network, which when connected via Wi-Fi, can carry out...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2012
University of Bristol researchers say they have developed a quantum chip that will lead to the creation of completely secure mobile phones and super-fast computers...Financial Times From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2012
It was a tweet that fired the imagination like few others. On May 10, 2011, at 1:35 in the afternoon, Eric Brewer told the world he was redesigning the most important...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 5, 2012
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 5, 2012
Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smartphone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world.Time From ACM News | September 4, 2012
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2012
Smarphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused.New Scientist From ACM News | September 4, 2012
Don't you dare even think about your banking account password when you slap on those fancy new brainwave headsets.Wired From ACM News | August 31, 2012
The Russian Academy of Sciences is building a supercomputer that it says will have a capacity of 10 petaflops, which would make it the most powerful in Russia. Izvestia From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2012
In a pre-iPhone age, mobile phones came in all shapes and sizes. Remember the clamshell, candy bar, swivel, backflip, slider, dual-slider, lipstick, and, of course...Reuters From ACM News | August 31, 2012
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant destinations to help scientists answer questions about the formation...NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM News | August 30, 2012
A rogue state is on the verge of developing a deadly biological weapon against which the rest of the world has no defense.Wired From ACM News | August 30, 2012
Rice University researchers recently unveiled Argos, a multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep up with the demands of data-hungry smartphones...Rice niversity From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2012
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers say they have precisely measured an important parameter of electron interaction known as non-adiabatic spin torque, which...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2012
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld's tale began in 1961 on...Wired From ACM News | August 29, 2012
Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive...The New York Times From ACM News | August 29, 2012