For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase.
Wired From ACM News | August 19, 2019
City leaders, academic researchers, and the U.S. Department of Transportation are working to predict car crashes and reduce emergency response times using data...Wired From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2019
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are concerned that 5G wireless phones could interfere with weather forecasts.
Wired From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2019
A new electronic platform from General Motors is envisioned as the linchpin of the automaker's future, enabling the function of almost all its cars' digital systems...Wired From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2019
Starting in July, customers in any Nike retail store in the U.S. can have their feet scanned to learn exactly what shoe size they need, in any style Nike makes....Wired From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2019
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we're all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2019
At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from...Wired From ACM News | March 13, 2019
The U.S. National Security Agency has chosen to open source the cybersecurity tool Ghidra, a reverse-engineering platform that takes "compiled" software and "decompiles"...Wired From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2019
At the endless booths of this week's RSA security trade show in San Francisco, an overflowing industry of vendors will offer any visitor an ad nauseam array of...Wired From ACM News | March 7, 2019
I am but a babe, exploring the world for the first time. Wearing a computerized glove, I reach forward in pursuit of a little toy basketball.
Wired From ACM News | March 1, 2019
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses Twitter to automatically predict a user's location within minutes.
Wired From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2019
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...Wired From ACM News | December 17, 2018
Since 2016, IBM has offered online access to a quantum computer. Anyone can log in and execute commands on a 5-qubit or 14-qubit machine located in Yorktown Heights...Wired From ACM News | December 13, 2018
Fire is chaos. Fire doesn't care what it destroys or who it kills—it spreads without mercy, leaving total destruction in its wake, as California's Camp and Woolsey...Wired From ACM News | November 30, 2018
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
Wired From ACM News | November 5, 2018
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...Wired From ACM News | November 1, 2018