The most secure computers in the world can't "Google" a thing—they are disconnected from the Internet and all other networks.Scientific American From ACM News | June 29, 2015
Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 25, 2015
Young children can look at whatever is in front of them, and describe what they see—but for artificial intelligence systems, that's a daunting task.Scientific American From ACM News | June 24, 2015
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2015
Bacteria that make us sick are bad enough, but many of them also continually evolve in ways that help them develop resistance to common antibiotic drugs, making...Scientific American From ACM News | May 26, 2015
Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2015
Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.Scientific American From ACM News | March 10, 2015
Each of the telescopes that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are currently working to bring into their black-hole-observing, planet-size array...Scientific American From ACM News | March 3, 2015
In November 2012 a 28-year-old woman plunged 15 meters from a bedroom window to the pavement in New York City, a devastating fall that left her body broken but...Scientific American From ACM News | February 9, 2015
Details about where and when you use your credit card could help reveal your identity to data thieves—even if they don't know your name, address and other personal...Scientific American From ACM News | January 30, 2015
Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and...Scientific American From ACM News | January 28, 2015
In 2010 two physicists at Manchester University in the U.K. shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on a new wonder material: graphene, a flat sheet of carbon...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2015
Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to deliver...Scientific American From ACM News | December 2, 2014