The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...Technology Review From ACM News | July 31, 2012
Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature...The New York Times From ACM News | July 31, 2012
Charge traps in plastic electronics have a common underlying mechanism, and this finding has led to a theoretical framework for designing electronics without traps...Georgia Tech News From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2012
Here is a look at some of the highlights and scarier happenings taking place at the annual Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas last week.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2012
UTSC professor Bianca Schroeder and students Nosayba El-Sayed, Ioan Stefanovici, George Amvrosiadis, and Andy A. Hwang received a best paper award at the recent...niversity of Toronto Scarborough From ACM TechNews | July 30, 2012
A security researcher who's spent 18 months cataloging and tracking malicious software that was developed and deployed specifically for spying on governments, activists...Krebs on Security From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2012
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | July 30, 2012
The lawyers behind the upcoming Apple v. Samsung trial have been hard at work filing docket after docket as their court battle looms closer, and many of those dockets...Wired From ACM News | July 30, 2012
Malicious software, like all software, gets smarter all the time. In recent years it’s learned to destroy physical infrastructure, install itself through Microsoft...Forbes From ACM News | July 27, 2012
VMware's planned acquisition of Nicra for $1.25 billion represents the evolution of networking beyond the hardware-dominated point of view that has sustained the...GigaOm From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost...CNET From ACM News | July 27, 2012
To the saccharine rhythm of a Muzak clip, Steve Ballmer crouched into a tackling stance and dashed across a ballroom stage at the Venetian Las Vegas.Vanity Fair From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Good news for paparazzi, stalkers, and corporate spies: "Private" jets are about to become significantly less private.Forbes From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Weaknesses in the technology that allows smartphone users to pinpoint themselves on a map, or check into restaurants and bars using apps such as Foursquare, could...Technology Review From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of "bots"—autonomous computer...BBC News From ACM News | July 26, 2012
Anyone who's looked at the "Seven Minutes of Terror" trailer for next month's Mars landing might have wondered whether the planners behind NASA's $2.5 billion Mars...NBC News From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2012
Smartphones' growing adoption of so-called "near field communications" promises to let the device in your pocket wirelessly make payments, beam info to other phones...Forbes From ACM News | July 26, 2012