Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government...CNET From ACM News | April 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...CNET From ACM News | March 8, 2013
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...CNET From ACM News | March 7, 2013
IBM wants to advance supercomputing technology in processing, optical communications, and memory by using the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2013
Technology evangelists have proposed a new inter-species Internet that would facilitate communication between humans and animals. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2013
Had Dr. Dipak Chowdhury known just how accident-prone I really am, he never would have handed over the 0.1-millimeter sheet of glass for me to bend between my fingers...CNET From ACM News | February 4, 2013
Yale University professor David Gelernter recently predicted the end of current Web and search technology as the focus shifts from a space-based Web to a time-based...CNet From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2013
Sharing information online has the potential to improve society worldwide, said World Wide Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the recent 2013 World Economic Forum...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2013
Ray Kurzweil's vision of the "singularity"—when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable—is...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2013
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.CNET From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2013
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2012
Nvidia may be flying high on its tablet wins, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a real mobile player.CNET From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.CNET From ACM News | October 26, 2012
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...CNET From ACM News | October 22, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.CNET From ACM Careers | October 19, 2012