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Researchers have devised malware that can jump airgaps by using the infrared capabilities of an infected network's surveillance cameras to transmit data to and...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 20, 2017
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2017
Life on Earth goes back at least two billion years, but it was only in the last half-billion that it would have been visible to the naked eye.
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 18, 2017
In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."
Ars Technica From ACM News | August 8, 2017
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 3, 2017
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 24, 2017
As the world's great companies pursue autonomous cars, they're essentially spending billions of dollars to get machines to do what your average two-year-old can...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 18, 2017
With China threatening to build the world's first exascale supercomputer before the US, the US Department of Energy has awarded a research grant to Hewlett Packard...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 16, 2017
While there are lots of things that artificial intelligence can't do yet—science being one of them—neural networks are proving themselves increasingly adept at...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 14, 2017
When reporters at The Intercept approached the National Security Agency on June 1 to confirm a document that had been anonymously leaked to the publication in May...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 7, 2017
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
At last week's Pentagon Lab Day in Washington, DC, the Army's Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) and Army Research...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 30, 2017
At this point, we've worked out the basics of the processes that produced the topography around us here on Earth.
Ars Technica From ACM News | May 22, 2017
The race to build the first useful quantum computer continues apace. And, like all races, there are decisions to be made, including the technology each competitor...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 18, 2017
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
Ars Technica From ACM News | May 3, 2017
As we've explored the Solar System, some items we're familiar with from Earth's geology have kept appearing in new places.
Ars Technica From ACM News | April 21, 2017