People generally talk less on the phone and send fewer text messages now because there are so many ways to communicate over an Internet connection. Though this...The New York Times From ACM News | May 7, 2012
The thorny privacy issues of tomorrow were on display Thursday morning, when AT&T showed off a batch of technologies under development at AT&T Labs, the company’s...The New York Times From ACM News | April 20, 2012
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...The New York Times From ACM News | April 17, 2012
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...The New York Times From ACM News | April 9, 2012
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from "Star Trek," don’t worry.The New York Times From ACM News | April 5, 2012
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials...The New York Times From ACM News | April 2, 2012
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...The New York Times From ACM News | March 26, 2012
In 1988, a Cornell graduate student, Robert Tappan Morris, let loose a computer worm on the fledgling version of the Internet. He said it was meant to be an experiment...The New York Times From ACM News | March 22, 2012
During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure...The New York Times From ACM News | March 14, 2012
Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now.
The New York Times From ACM News | March 7, 2012
The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organizations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its...The New York Times From ACM News | February 28, 2012
These days, it’s hard to find a superlative that adequately describes Apple. But maybe simplest is best: biggest.The New York Times From ACM News | February 24, 2012
It wasn't so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny...The New York Times From ACM News | February 23, 2012