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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Video surveillance is big business. Expect it to get bigger. After law enforcement used closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help identify last week's Boston...Fortune CNN From ACM Careers | April 29, 2013
Even after the identification of the Boston bombing suspects through grainy security-camera images, officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras...CNN From ACM News | April 26, 2013
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...CNN From ACM News | February 21, 2013
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by...CNN From ACM News | February 1, 2013
Technology policy didn't get much air time in the 2012 presidential election, but the Obama administration will face serious issues over the next four years.CNN From ACM News | November 16, 2012
In an era when shadowy hackers can snatch secret government files and humble big businesses with seeming ease, it's an unavoidable question as Election Day approaches...CNN From ACM News | November 4, 2012
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a "transparency...CNN From ACM News | June 18, 2012
Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and although the mostly state and local races won't stir the same passions as next year's presidential contest,...CNN From ACM News | November 8, 2011
While the phone hacking by British tabloid News of the World was unexceptional by technical standards, security experts say the scandal portends how the growth...CNN From ACM News | July 11, 2011
When you buy a video game from Best Buy, you don't give the retailer the right to barge into your house whenever it wants. So why do we give that permission to...CNN From ACM News | May 17, 2011
For Mike Smith, Facebook is a fort for communicating freely with friends online. Within the confines of that giant yet access-restricted network, the music-software...CNN From ACM News | April 12, 2011
Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director...CNN From ACM News | April 1, 2011
California's high court ruled Thursday that retailers don't have the right to ask customers for their ZIP code while completing credit card transactions, saying...CNN From ACM News | February 11, 2011
Google has launched the latest salvo in an effort to overcome internet blackouts in Egypt during anti-government protests there.CNN From ACM News | February 1, 2011
Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember them?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.CNNMoney From ACM News | January 24, 2011
The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him.CNN From ACM News | December 16, 2010