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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.
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 15, 2015
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2015
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | August 24, 2015
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 24, 2015
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 21, 2015
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | July 9, 2015
In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications—a project...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 30, 2015
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 23, 2015
Thanks to resistance from Senator Rand Paul and other members of the Senate, the provisions of the USA Patriot Act that were used to justify the National Security...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 3, 2015
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 11, 2015
An Icelandic genetics firm has sequenced the genomes of 2,636 of its countrymen and women, finding genetic markers for a variety of diseases, as well as a new timeline...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 30, 2015
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 26, 2015
During my visit to General Electric's Global Research Centers in San Ramon, California, and Niskayuna, New York, last month, I got what amounts to an end-to-end...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 24, 2015
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 23, 2015