Researchers have tested the feasibility of creating a covert acoustical mesh network between multiple laptops to exchange data using near-ultrasonic frequencies...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2013
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn said in a court filing that the U.S. government has offered them only a "heavily redacted version" of its response...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2013
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this month is deploying Catalyst, a new supercomputer that uses solid-state drive storage as an alternative to dynamic random...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2013
Cornell University researchers say Bitcoin is vulnerable to an attack that could have a devastating impact on the virtual currency, but it can be fixed with a software...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2013
Microsoft Research developers are using the Kinect technology to develop a system that can read sign language from deaf users and translate it into spoken text....IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2013
A device dubbed the "Kinect of the future" can see through walls and pinpoint the movements of someone with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 centimeters. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | October 16, 2013
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2013
Xerox scanners sometimes randomly alter numbers on documents when reproducing them if a specific combination of image quality and compression settings are used. ...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2013
Facebook says it has developed a virtual machine that can run the PHP Web programming language nine times as fast as PHP natively on large systems. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2013
Just days after Google said it had patched a QR code vulnerability affecting its Google Glass wearable computer, Symantec says it has found another vulnerability...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 23, 2013
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has embarked on a path toward becoming a more international organization over the past year. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2013
Security warnings displayed by Web browsers are much more effective at deterring risky Internet behavior than was previously believed, a recent study found.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2013
Defcon hacking convention organizers have asked federal government workers not to attend the event this year. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2013
Wi-Vi is a new system under development that uses wireless Wi-Fi technology to track moving objects through walls. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2013
The Internet Society hopes to get as many different voices as possible involved in bringing intellectual property policies in line with leading online platforms...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 18, 2013
China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer has overtaken the U.S.'s Titan system as the world's most powerful computer, according to the latest Top500 List, a twice-yearly...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2013
Nearly three dozen computer scientists say Oracle's plan to copyright its Java application programming interface would hinder the computer industry and limit access...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 31, 2013
Sony recently unveiled a collaboration with Lego on a new generation of products that could bridge the gap between toys and video games. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 30, 2013
New technologies will enable networks to use much less energy by 2020, even though they will be carrying much more traffic.IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2013