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
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
When Marc Guerin, a software salesman, drives the 38 kilometers from his home west of Paris to Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, he seeks out the fastest route...The New York Times From ACM News | October 4, 2012
Julie Medeiros thinks her taste in fashion is worth something. Turns out it is: about $50 a month.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 4, 2012
For Microsoft, it was bad enough when Apple's stock market value surpassed its own in 2010. Now Google, a company that didn't even exist 15 years ago, just did...The New York Times From ACM News | October 2, 2012
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 1, 2012
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 28, 2012
A number of Internet service providers, including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., have recently upped the maximum speeds of broadband they offer...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2012
If you grab the hand of a two-armed robot named Baxter, it will turn its head and a pair of cartoon eyes—displayed on a tablet-size computer-screen "face"—will...The New York Times From ACM News | September 19, 2012
When Joey Abicca pokes a metal crutch into the ground with his right arm, tiny motors start whirling around his left leg, lifting it and moving it forward.The New York Times From ACM News | September 13, 2012
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...The New York Times From ACM News | September 11, 2012
Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company’s larger and more secretive...The New York Times From ACM News | August 29, 2012
In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking, and apps for smartphones.The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2012
When companies go to trial, as Apple and Samsung have learned, the public gets to hear corporate secrets. Among those revealed:The New York Times From ACM News | August 21, 2012
This week, nine jurors are expected to hunker down in a federal courthouse here to decide a case that could change how the world's smartphones and tablet computers...The New York Times From ACM News | August 20, 2012
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old...The New York Times From ACM News | August 20, 2012
This has been the crossover year for Big Data—as a concept, as a term, and, yes, as a marketing tool.The New York Times From ACM News | August 15, 2012