University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...Technology Review From ACM News | August 14, 2013
Who are the most influential thinkers on the planet? That's a question that you might imagine ought to be straightforward to determine, given the recent advances...Technology Review From ACM News | August 13, 2013
Intel Labs is launching a data economy initiative to help consumers realize more of the value of their personal digital information. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 21, 2013
Google's recently developed learning software, which can identify specific objects by watching YouTube videos, is now being used to make Google's products smarter...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2012
George Church is an imposing figure—over six feet tall, with a large, rectangular face bordered by a brown and silver nest of beard and topped by a thick mop of...Technology Review From ACM News | July 2, 2012
Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at Hewlett-Packard's Social Computing Lab have developed an algorithm that can predict how popular new stories will become. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2012
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...Technology Review From ACM News | October 27, 2011
The proliferation of ways to measure things—point-of-service terminals, Web analytics, geographic and temporal records, even semantic information—means businesses...Technology Review From ACM Careers | September 30, 2011
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2011
The move may finally encourage widespread use of technology that makes online information as comprehensible to computers as it is to humans. If the effort works...Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2011
Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2011
Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created in Yahoo's Barcelona research lab, generates...Technology Review From ACM News | August 25, 2010
Tools that benchmark performance promise to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of competing cloud providers.Technology Review From ACM News | July 16, 2010
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...Technology Review From ACM News | July 13, 2010
UCLA researchers have developed a type of quantum cryptography, which guarantees that only a person at a certain location can read an encrypted message. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 17, 2010
Transfers of large amounts of data across the Internet to wireless devices suffer from a key problem: The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used to send and receive...Technology Review From ACM News | February 16, 2010
A wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second—six to 14...Technology Review From ACM News | February 11, 2010
An Indian telecom company is deploying simple cell phone base stations that need as little as 50 watts of solar-provided power. It will soon announce plans to sell...Technology Review From ACM News | February 10, 2010