Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 24, 2016
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...Ars Technica From ACM News | January 14, 2016
Quantum systems are inherently fragile as any interactions with the outside world can change their state.Ars Technica From ACM News | December 17, 2015
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.Ars Technica From ACM News | October 28, 2015
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 19, 2015
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...Ars Technica From ACM News | September 15, 2015
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...Ars Technica From ACM News | August 25, 2015
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | August 24, 2015
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | July 9, 2015
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 23, 2015
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 26, 2015
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 24, 2015
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 23, 2015
This week at the 2015 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Intel will provide an update on its new 10nm manufacturing process and new research...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 23, 2015