After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos awoke to see the October sun glinting through the water, an image so lovely he thought he was dreaming.The New York Times From ACM News | December 12, 2012
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms...The New York Times From ACM News | December 11, 2012
John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 7, 2012
Twitter, perhaps more than any other social media outlet, has become one of the most powerful tools to promote democracy in the Middle East.The New York Times From ACM News | December 3, 2012
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cellphones, and the cornucopia of...The New York Times From ACM News | November 29, 2012
The Mars rover Curiosity has found something—something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it?The New York Times From ACM News | November 28, 2012
At the recent World Conference on International Telecommunications, representatives from more than 190 governments, telecommunications companies, and Internet groups...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2012
Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel's cyber problems.The New York Times From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Scientists at Toshiba and Cambridge University have used an advanced photodetector to extract weak photons from the torrents of light pulses carried by fiber-optic...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
All Google services, including its search engine, Gmail and Maps, were inaccessible in China on Friday night and into Saturday, the company confirmed.The New York Times From ACM News | November 9, 2012
Eric Horvitz joined Microsoft Research 20 years ago with a medical degree, a Ph.D. in computer science and no plans to stay. "I thought I’d be here six months,"...The New York Times From ACM News | November 1, 2012
A few weeks ago, Thomas Goddard, a community college student in Santa Clara, Calif., and a devoted supporter of President Obama, clicked on mittromney.com to check...The New York Times From ACM News | November 1, 2012
Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google’s secret sauce is that it finds what you...The New York Times From ACM News | October 24, 2012
You've probably never heard of graphene, a carbon-based material, but it might be stuffed into your pocket or wrapped around your wrist in the not-too-distant future...The New York Times From ACM News | October 19, 2012
Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined...The New York Times From ACM News | October 15, 2012
The Mykonos Vase, discovered in 1961 in the Cyclades, is one of the earliest accounts of the Trojan Horse, used as a subterfuge by the Greeks to enter the city...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2012
Two physicists who developed techniques to peer in on the most intimate relations between light and matter won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.The New York Times From ACM News | October 10, 2012