For companies like the dating site Ashley Madison or the health insurer Anthem, financial loss, customer anger and professional embarrassment aren't the only consequences...Wired From ACM News | August 26, 2015
After more than four years and two giant law enforcement busts, the Dark Web's drug market is still just as robust as it was during the Silk Road's heyday.Wired From ACM News | August 17, 2015
The next time you press your wireless key fob to unlock your car, if you find that it doesn’t beep until the second try, the issue may not be a technical glitch...Wired From ACM News | August 7, 2015
The images of Pluto that the New Horizons probe beamed across 3 billion miles of hard vacuum are, in a word, breathtaking.Wired From ACM News | July 27, 2015
After Tuesday's historic agreement between Iran and the "P5+1" group of countries, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency will have access to all...Wired From ACM News | July 20, 2015
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.Wired From ACM News | July 9, 2015
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.Wired From ACM Careers | June 30, 2015
Dark matter is to astrophysicists what sex is to kids in junior high school: Everybody is really interested, but nobody really knows what it looks like.Wired From ACM News | June 29, 2015
With the help of neural networks—vast networks of machines that mimic the web of neurons in the human brain—Facebook can recognize your face.Wired From ACM News | June 24, 2015
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...Wired From ACM News | June 22, 2015
Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.Wired From ACM News | June 18, 2015