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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.
A complex picture of your personal life can now be pieced together using a variety of public data sources, and increasingly sophisticated data-mining techniques...Technology Review From ACM News | August 11, 2011
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2011
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google's voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat...Technology Review From ACM News | July 27, 2011
Henry Evans recently shaved himself for the first time since a stroke left him mute and partly paralyzed 10 years ago. His achievement came thanks to researchers...Technology Review From ACM News | July 19, 2011
Cell phones and many other mobile devices now come packed with sensors capable of tracking them as they move. The digital compasses, gyroscopes, and accelerometers...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2011
Updates you've posted to Facebook and Twitter can present obvious problems when you're searching for a job or starting a new relationship. But a growing number...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 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
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
People are more likely to buy a product that their friends have already purchased, and the spread of adoption within social networks could help predict whether...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | 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
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
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
University of California, San Diego researchers working on the GreenDroid project have developed software that scans the Android operating system and its most popular...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 29, 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
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