A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...The Guardian From ACM News | February 19, 2013
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...The New York Times From ACM News | February 19, 2013
The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...Army Times From ACM News | February 15, 2013
Thomas Pynchon said it best, years before: "A screaming comes across the sky." Midmorning today, near the city of Chelyabinsk in western Siberia, a meteor came...Slate From ACM News | February 15, 2013
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid...Jet Propulsion Laboratory From ACM News | February 15, 2013
The Open Invention Network, a community set up by an IBM-led consortium in 2005 to foster a safe patent environment for developers and users of the free, open-source...Fortune From ACM Careers | February 15, 2013
Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating...Technology Review From ACM News | February 14, 2013
University College London researchers have created what they describe as a self-repairing computer that could keep mission-critical systems working. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2013
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2013
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...NPR From ACM News | February 13, 2013
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | February 13, 2013
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...The New York Times From ACM News | February 13, 2013
While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | February 13, 2013
Carlos III University of Madrid researchers have developed a system that improves GPS accuracy by up to 90 percent. Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2013
The goal of every movie is for the audience to suspend its collective disbelief and become immersed in the world created on screen.Inside Science From ACM News | February 12, 2013
Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent email from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them...ArsTechnica From ACM News | February 12, 2013