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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A functional prototype of the Global Square, a social network collaboration platform for activists, will be available by March. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 17, 2012
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed a method for embedding an electronic junction into optical fiber, which could lead to more streamlined...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2012
The U.S. National Security Agency has released a security-enhanced version of Android. SE Android enforces stricter access control policies than those available...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2012
Japan's Digital Grid Consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that can handle power the way the Internet handles data, using routers and service providers...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2011
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' plan to introduce hundreds of new generic top-level domains next year may be moving too fast, said U.S....IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2011
Dartmouth University researchers are updating the grep and diff Unix command line-based text analysis tools available in all Linux and Unix distributions to handle...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2011
The organizers of the YaCy free software project hope to one day replace centrally run search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2011
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has proposed an extension to the current Secure Sockets Layer chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 23, 2011
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest recently launched a challenge for the first time in five years, asking participants to write bizarre and unnecessarily...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 21, 2011
Advocates of free software are hailing a decision by a German court to prevent a DSL router vendor from blocking a software maker from altering the device's Linux...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 17, 2011
China will rely less on chips made by foreign companies for its supercomputers over the next five years, says the National Supercomputer Center's Pan Jingshan.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2011
Stanford University researchers have developed an automated tool that can decipher Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs)...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2011
IBM's Watson supercomputer recently defeated teams of students from Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2011
Google announced the launch of a preview version of Dart, an object-oriented Web programming language that has capabilities that resemble those of JavaScript but...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2011
Cooperation between the United States and Russia on cybersecurity issues is gradually improving, as indicated by increasing interaction between experts at events...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2011
Intel recently demonstrated Claremont, an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs using solar power by dropping energy consumption...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 22, 2011
The National Security Agency recently submitted Accumulo, new label-based data store software, to the Apache Software Foundation, hoping that more parties will...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 14, 2011
IBM is developing super-fast, super-dense storage media that could be available within 10 years. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2011
Cornell University professor Noah Snavely is leading an effort to develop a "global camera," software that mines pictures from Flickr and combines them to create...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 16, 2011