NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 17, 2018
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 10, 2018
There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones.
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 15, 2018
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 8, 2018
NASA is in various stages of planning two multi-billion dollar missions to Jupiter's intriguing, ice-covered moon of Europa.
Ars Technica From ACM News | May 18, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 28, 2018
Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published...Ars Technica From ACM News | March 14, 2018
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
Ars Technica From ACM News | February 26, 2018
When it comes to data storage, efforts to get faster access grab most of the attention. But long-term archiving of data is equally important, and it generally requires...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 22, 2018
After spending three months at a temperature of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero, the massive James Webb Space Telescope emerged from a large vacuum...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 16, 2018
Joseph Coughlin has been director of the MIT AgeLab ever since he founded it in 1999. In his new book, The Longevity Economy, he contends that old age—much like...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 5, 2018
The Meltdown and Spectre flaws—two related vulnerabilities that enable a wide range of information disclosure from every mainstream processor, with particularly...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 5, 2018
On December 1, 1977, a truly strange bird took flight for the first time in the skies over a desolate corner of Nevada.
Ars Technica From ACM Careers | December 18, 2017
Despite the rise of massive crypto-ransomware attacks, an even more troubling trend emerged in data gathered by the security firm CrowdStrike this past year and...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 8, 2017
On Monday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report claiming that White House officials had discussed using an experimental weapon to disrupt or disable a North Korean...Ars Technica From ACM News | December 8, 2017
On November 1, the US Navy issued its report on the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain this summer.
Ars Technica From ACM News | November 2, 2017