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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.
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2017
Every once in a while, just for laughs, Kevin Smith-Fagan tries to call a friend of his, Priscilla, using the voice-recognition system in his 2013 Chevrolet Volt...The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2017
On the morning of May 18, 2014, Violeta Lagunes was perplexed by a series of strange messages that appeared in her Gmail inbox.
The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | January 5, 2017
On the summit of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on the island of Maui in Hawaii, a telescope began clicking pictures of the night sky in 2010.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 5, 2017
Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 30, 2016
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 27, 2016
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2016
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...The New York Times From ACM News | December 20, 2016
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election.The New York Times From ACM News | November 4, 2016
The so-called Internet of Things, its proponents argue, offers many benefits: energy efficiency, technology so convenient it can anticipate what you want, even...The New York Times From ACM News | November 3, 2016
Ali Farhadi holds a puny $5 computer, called a Raspberry Pi, comfortably in his palm and exults that his team of researchers has managed to squeeze into it a powerful...The New York Times From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Google is locked in a six-year battle with Europe's antitrust officials. And the stakes for both sides are getting higher.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 31, 2016
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...The New York Times From ACM News | October 25, 2016
When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory...The New York Times From ACM News | October 24, 2016
Most people think the eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun along a straight plane, like a disc on a record player.The New York Times From ACM News | October 21, 2016
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...The New York Times From ACM News | October 17, 2016