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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.
Google researchers are implementing voice-driven Web search capability on computers, with the goal of making such searches as easy to perform as they are on the...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2011
Forty years ago, I wrote an article for Technology Review titled "Shall We Build the Space Shuttle?" Now, with the 135th and final flight of the shuttle at hand...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 6, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an initiative to shore up security by squashing software bugs. This follows a slew of high-profile attacks on...Technology Review From ACM News | June 30, 2011
In the annals of great oxymorons, "non-invasive brain implant" would surely rank up there. Misnomer or not, the University of Michigan is touting just such a...Technology Review From ACM News | June 27, 2011
Google Voice Search for desktop computers isn't much more than the company porting a technology that's been on mobile phones for a while to PCs. But don't write...Technology Review From ACM News | June 16, 2011
A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2011
Once a year, at the International Computer Olympiad, teams pit their AI software against others' in a variety of nerd-appropriate sports: chess, go, backgammon...Technology Review From ACM News | June 13, 2011
The move may finally encourage widespread use of technology that makes online information as comprehensible to computers as it is to humans. If the effort works...Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2011
Sometimes it's easy to know which messages will spread through Twitter like wildfire. Just ask Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York), who faces pressure to resign...Technology Review From ACM News | June 9, 2011
Major corporations have made serious mistakes with information security recently, resulting in spectacular failures to protect business and customer records....Technology Review From ACM News | June 3, 2011
In a bid to enable computers to learn faster, defense company Lockheed Martin has bought a system that uses quantum mechanics to process digital data.Technology Review From ACM News | June 2, 2011
Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called...Technology Review From ACM News | May 27, 2011
Hasso Plattner Institute researchers have developed a system that enables iPhone users to perform actions on their devices without actually holding the phone. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2011
Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering...Technology Review From ACM News | May 23, 2011
Media, search engines, advertisers and social networks have been tracking what you click since the birth of the Web, but this measurement yields an incomplete...Technology Review From ACM News | May 20, 2011
Big technology companies like Netflix and Facebook make clever use of the digital traces we leave online: their algorithms can make connections between data and...Technology Review From ACM News | May 16, 2011
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks says a new generation of industrial robots could be enabled by better machine vision.Technology Review From ACM News | May 13, 2011
Sitting in the left-field upper deck to watch the San Francisco Giants play baseball on May 11 would cost you eight bucks if you'd bought the ticket in late April...Technology Review From ACM News | May 5, 2011
Microsoft software design specialist Bill Buxton wants developers to focus on innovations that can improve humans' quality of life. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2011
Microsoft researchers have developed RePriv, a browser that analyzes users' online behavior and controls how their personal information is released to sites that...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2011