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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The developer who introduced the "Heartbleed" vulnerability to the open-source code used by thousands of websites has told the Guardian it was an "oversight"—but...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2014
The U.S. National Security Agency has performed warrantless searches of its databases to obtain data from Americans' phone calls and emails. The Guardian From ACM TechNews | April 2, 2014
University of Southampton professor Nigel Shadbolt thinks automatic real-time machine translation could be possible within 25 years.The Guardian (United States) From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2014
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...The Guardian From ACM News | March 3, 2014
Google is predicting a generation of screenless computing devices that rely on voice recognition, a senior engineer has said, emphasising that the company encrypts...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | December 10, 2013
Google is hoping to inspire children's interest in quantum computing by using one of their favourite digital pastimes: Minecraft.The Guardian From ACM Careers | October 23, 2013
Researchers have developed a method of predicting whether a Kickstarter project will succeed within four hours of its launch, with 76-percent accuracy. The Guardian From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2013
We're four days away now. After a year of pre-publicity and a five-year wait since GTA IV, the latest instalment in Rockstar's gangland opus is almost upon us.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | September 13, 2013
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...The Guardian From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...The Guardian From ACM News | June 6, 2013
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2013
Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency—worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing.The Guardian From ACM News | March 25, 2013
YouTube has a billion unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month, equivalent to one out of every two people on the Internet—and the generationsmartphones...The Guardian From ACM Careers | March 22, 2013
Scientists have created a glasses-free, 3D display that could mimic the famous hologram projection of Princess Leia in the original 1977 Star Wars film.The Guardian From ACM News | March 20, 2013
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...The Guardian From ACM News | February 19, 2013
Google has revealed the full scale of the U.S. government's use of controversial legislation that bypasses judicial approval to access the online information of...The Guardian From ACM News | January 24, 2013
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.Associated Press/The Guardian From ACM News | January 8, 2013
Google has been forced by regulators in the U.S. to agree to legally binding changes to the way it presents some search results and runs its search advertising...The Guardian From ACM News | January 4, 2013
The outrage over Instagram's announcement that it is changing its terms and conditions has turned the spotlight on the relationship between websites and users who...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | December 21, 2012