In the late 90s, Sam Schmidt had a promising career as an IndyCar driver, finishing fifth in the championship in 1999 after taking his first win in Las Vegas.Ars Technica From ACM News | April 25, 2016
We're all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver's blood-alcohol level.Ars Technica From ACM News | April 12, 2016
Since Galileo first discovered the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, telescopes have gotten larger, more accurate, and more powerful.Ars Technica From ACM News | March 28, 2016
Osaka University roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro explains why offloading a humanoid robot's intelligence to a data center or a cloud computer is impractical. Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | March 7, 2016
A new process uses carbon nanotubes to randomly wire part of a chip, which is then used to generate cryptographic information. Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
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