Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.Scientific American From ACM News | December 28, 2015
"Today we sense we are close to be being able to alter human heredity," Nobel Laureate and California Institute of Technology virologist David Baltimore said December...Scientific American From ACM News | December 3, 2015
After more than a year of bickering, stalling and revising, the Senate passed its most significant cybersecurity bill to date 74–21.Scientific American From ACM News | October 29, 2015
NASA scientists announced today the best evidence yet that Mars, once thought dry, sterile and dead, may yet have life in it: Liquid water still flows on at least...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.Scientific American From ACM News | September 18, 2015
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 10, 2015
Mobile devices have become incredibly popular for their ability to weave modern conveniences such as Internet access and social networking into the fabric of daily...Scientific American From ACM News | August 5, 2015
There is a gaping hole in the latest effort to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), one so big it could hold an estimated 357 million...Scientific American From ACM News | July 31, 2015
Exploring how much information the Earth can store offers insights into the manifestation of order in the universe.Scientific American From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2015
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
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.Scientific American From ACM News | May 6, 2015
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...Scientific American From ACM News | May 1, 2015