The Moving Picture Experts Group has developed the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). The video-compression technology will enable higher-quality video, and also...CNet From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2013
Ray Kurzweil's vision of the "singularity"—when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable—is...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2013
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.CNET From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2013
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...CNET From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2013
Earlier this month, Google shared a fascinating statistic. The number of items in the company's Knowledge Graph—its database of people, places, and things, and...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2012
Nvidia may be flying high on its tablet wins, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a real mobile player.CNET From ACM News | November 21, 2012
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.CNET From ACM News | October 26, 2012
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...CNET From ACM News | October 22, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.CNET From ACM Careers | October 19, 2012
Moore's Law has sustained its momentum despite worries of it hitting its physical limits, thanks to materials scientists' progress in getting more computing power...CNet From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2012
According to Velvin Hogan, the 67-year-old foreman of the jury in the U.S. trial between the Apple and Samsung, one of the turning points in group's journey to came...CNET From ACM Opinion | August 28, 2012
The electronic brain controlling NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has far less horsepower than the microchips typically found in a modern smart phone.CNET From ACM News | August 13, 2012
Walking through gallery after gallery of classical European paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum here, it's easy to get lost...CNET From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook...CNET From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2012