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
It's 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva.The Guardian From ACM News | November 5, 2012
We're used to the idea of "peak oil"—that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field?The Guardian From ACM News | October 23, 2012
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don't crash into each other? Or why...The Guardian From ACM News | October 18, 2012
In one room, scientists debated whether the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer will help find a way to bend the space-time continuum and make interstellar travel...The Guardian From ACM News | September 19, 2012
Spalding railway station in Lincolnshire is not a big place. It takes me about two seconds to scan the platform and spot who I'm looking for: Jake Davis, aka Topiary...The Guardian From ACM News | September 10, 2012
Instead of prosecuting elite computer hackers, the U.S. government should recruit them to launch cyber-attacks against Islamist terrorists and other foes, according...The Guardian From ACM News | July 11, 2012
The world is about to get a well-earned long weekend but don't make big plans because it will only last an extra second. A so-called "leap second" will be added...The Guardian From ACM News | June 29, 2012
I'm sitting waiting for the House of Commons to start debating a Law Against Trolls or, as they would call it, an amendment to the Defamation Act. It would basically...The Guardian From ACM News | June 13, 2012
Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft, such as the Boeing 787, that could allow the chip...The Guardian From ACM News | June 5, 2012
From politicians and professors to computer scientists and the first programmer, champions of the open Internet.The Guardian From ACM News | April 24, 2012
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | April 16, 2012
The games industry was a very different place 10 years ago. Still dominated by Japanese games and Japanese games machines, Microsoft's plans to launch its own dedicated...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | March 15, 2012
Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.The Guardian From ACM Careers | December 5, 2011
Robbie the Robot in the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet may have been endearing in a clunky, metallic way, but negotiating tricky terrain was never his strong point...The Guardian From ACM News | December 1, 2011