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
In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons...Technology Review From ACM News | April 18, 2011
Obsolescence is the curse of electronics: no sooner have you bought a gadget than its hardware is outdated. A new, low cost type of microchip that can rearrange...Technology Review From ACM News | April 18, 2011
They're the scourge of the Internet—networks containing thousands or even millions of virus-infected, remote-controlled PCs. These so-called "botnets" send out...Technology Review From ACM News | April 13, 2011
Researchers in California have created a way to place a call on a cell phone using just your thoughts. Their new brain-computer interface is almost 100 percent...Technology Review From ACM News | April 12, 2011
The most important function of the brain is figuring out what to ignore: Research suggests that we can process only about one percent of the visual information...Technology Review From ACM News | April 11, 2011
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...Technology Review From ACM News | April 7, 2011
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2011
Over the past 15 years, Web-based applications have gradually replaced those based on other networking protocols for everything from personal communications to...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2011
Most data networks could be faster, more energy efficient, and more secure. But network hardware—switches, routers, and other devices—is essentially locked down...Technology Review From ACM News | March 31, 2011
An ambitious attempt by Google to shift the Web over to a new, royalty-free video format has taken significant strides. New software has been released that can...Technology Review From ACM News | March 31, 2011
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.Technology Review From ACM News | March 14, 2011
Handing sensitive data over to a cloud computing provider makes many companies skittish. But new software, called HomeAlone, could help them come to terms with...Technology Review From ACM News | March 11, 2011
A research team at Georgia Tech hopes to make augmented reality on smart phones more useful by developing an open standard for it.Technology Review From ACM News | March 8, 2011
Link-shortening services may be slowing down parts of the Internet, according to the Foundation for Research and Technology and Microsoft Research. And it might...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2011