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Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 26, 2014
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 16, 2014
Take a tour through the research laboratories at any university physics department or national lab, and much of what you will see defines "cutting edge."Ars Technica From ACM News | May 8, 2014
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | April 30, 2014
The question of whether online broadcast television is to remain in the hands of a stodgy industry that once declared the VCR the enemy is being put directly before...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 21, 2014
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 4, 2014
On January 25, 2004, a strange object fell out of the sky on a distant planet—and when it hit the surface, it started to bounce.Ars Technica From ACM News | January 27, 2014
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits.Ars Technica From ACM News | January 6, 2014
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 19, 2013
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | September 18, 2013
What happens when two black holes smash into each another? They form an even larger black hole while driving jets of relativistic matter into the far reaches...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2010
This morning, the Supreme Court decided the long-running Bilski case on business method patents--a case with broad applicability to software patents. As expected...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 28, 2010
An international group of researchers have developed a new algorithm for recommender systems designed to address the challenge of diversity when making recommendations...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2010
Sir Tim Berners-Lee used the recent Internet Governance Forum to announce the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, which he says will be an incubator for transformative...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | November 23, 2009