Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code…
From ACM NewsGregory Goth Commissioned by CACM Staff| March 29, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The technology industry is being rattled by a quiet and sophisticated malicious software program that has infiltrated factory computers.The New York Times From ACM News | September 27, 2010
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has passed a proposal to make vast swaths of idle TV broadcast airwaves available for high-speed wireless broadband...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2010
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander of the U.S. military's cyberwarfare operations, is advocating the creation of a separate, secure computer network to protect...The New York Times From ACM News | September 24, 2010
For all its success, Google is often criticized for being a one-trick pony. After 12 years, the Internet search company is still struggling to find a significant...The New York Times From ACM News | September 23, 2010
Sandra Person Burns used to love browsing and shopping online. Until she realized she was being tracked by software on her computer that she thought she had erased...The New York Times From ACM News | September 22, 2010
For football spectators, a device called FanVision might be nirvana—or it might turn them into stadium versions of zombies who stumble down streets staring mesmerized...The New York Times From ACM News | September 22, 2010
Near the southeastern edge of Cambridge, where this idyllic university town gives way to fields of green, sits the headquarters of ARM Holdings. Neither the modest...The New York Times From ACM News | September 21, 2010
Cloud-based breakthroughs face a formidable obstacle in Europe: strict privacy laws that place rigid limits on the movement of information beyond the borders...The New York Times From ACM News | September 20, 2010
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve the use of "white spaces"—unlicensed, TV-band airwaves that could lead to stronger, faster wireless...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2010
Those who find Google’s search engine to be impossibly slow will welcome Google Instant, an upgrade to the company’s search results that it unveiled Wednesday.The New York Times From ACM News | September 8, 2010
The FCC recently asked for more feedback regarding whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service, adding months of debate on the subject. The FCC...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2010
Whoever said technology was dehumanizing was wrong. On screens everywhere—cellphones, e-readers, A.T.M.’s—as Diana Ross sang, we just want to reach out and touch...The New York Times From ACM News | September 1, 2010
Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization...The New York Times From ACM News | August 31, 2010
The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn’t ready to buy and left the site. Then the shoes...The New York Times From ACM News | August 30, 2010
Internet companies have appropriated the real estate business’s mantra—it’s all about location, location, location. But while a home on the beach will always be...The New York Times From ACM News | August 30, 2010
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of...The New York Times From ACM News | August 26, 2010
It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and...The New York Times From ACM News | August 25, 2010
The potential of Internet-based collaboration was vividly demonstrated this month when complexity theorists used blogs and wikis to pounce on a claimed proof for...The New York Times From ACM News | August 16, 2010
On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company’s Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging...The New York Times From ACM News | August 16, 2010