Facebook disproportionately shows certain types of job ads to men and women, raising questions about efforts to eliminate bias in its algorithms.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2021
China's new digital yuan cryptocurrency is expected to give its government a vast economic and social monitoring tool, and strip users of their anonymity.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | April 7, 2021
Artificial intelligence can make the government more efficient and effective. But first, it has to hire the people who can make it all happen.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 7, 2021
The variety of low-cost products for people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss is expected to increase due to a new law.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2021
A lower court had ruled that Google's Android operating system infringed Java copyrights held by Oracle.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 6, 2021
Cybersecurity researchers said TikTok's underlying computer code does not pose a national security threat to the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2021
A new report found hackers targeting servers running Microsoft Exchange software used U.S.-based computers from at least four service providers.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2021
Developers of the first digital "vaccine passports" for post-pandemic travel said the applications are designed for ease of use.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 17, 2021
Law enforcement agencies increasingly are using data gathered by the vast network of automated license-plate scanners to solve crimes.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2021
Ashley Honey at New Zealand-based Nui hopes to use his company's electronic trading platforms to automate trading of meat and poultry products.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2021
Federal investigators say there is evidence the suspected Russian hack of U.S. government and businesses went beyond compromising SolarWinds' software.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2021
China is channeling state funding and political influence to wrest control of technical standards for cutting-edge technologies from the West.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2021
Google is moving ahead with a plan to strip third-party cookies from its Chrome Web browser and replace them with privacy-friendly alternatives.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | February 2, 2021
Six quantum computing experts are raising ethical issues about the technology's potential to create new weapons and ramp up human genetic manipulation.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2021
Chief information officers last year had to reprioritize corporate demands and establish new boundaries to prevent team burnout due to remote work and the ramp-up...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2021
Apple and Google said they will bar data broker X-Mode Social from culling location information from mobile devices running their operating systems.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 29, 2020
Schools struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic are being targeted by ransomware, as hackers threaten to post sensitive student information online....The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2020
Some technology experts believe using artificial intelligence to gauge voter sentiment could help to better understand the electorate.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2020
Online retailers have taken steps during the pandemic to improve their search and recommendation engines by building predictive models with high levels of accuracy...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2020