While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect's...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 11, 2016
For years, insurance companies have used estimates of your annual mileage to determine your car insurance rates.The Washington Post From ACM News | January 5, 2016
The world's biggest tech firms—including Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo—are pressing for changes to a proposed British law aimed at expanding the government's electronic...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 22, 2015
"You're a male, you're 34-years-old and your 5-foot-10 1/2 inches tall." That's a prediction that Craig Venter, long a pioneer on the frontier of genomics, offered...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 16, 2015
Machine learning and computer vision are being combined to provide commentary on professional sporting events as they occur.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2015
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."The Washington Post From ACM Careers | November 10, 2015
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.The Washington Post From ACM News | November 5, 2015
Russians submarines and spy ships are "ggressively operating" near the undersea cables that are the backbone of the global Internet—worrying some U.S. intelligence...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 27, 2015
Researchers and driving safety experts warn the new autopilot option installed in most Tesla vehicles could cause unsafe conditions. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2015
A federal judge in New York is seeking to expand to the courts the hot debate over whether tech companies should be forced to find ways to unlock encrypted smartphones...The Washington Post From ACM News | October 13, 2015
Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University have launched an Aerospace Data Analytics Lab to mine insights from the vast body of data generated by the aerospace industry...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2015
The Obama administration is developing a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who have benefited from their government's...The Washington Post From ACM News | September 1, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission, the de facto federal watchdog for consumers' privacy and data security, knows it needs help.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2015
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.The Washington Post From ACM News | July 20, 2015
We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...The Washington Post From ACM News | June 29, 2015
The CityFarm research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab seeks to expand the emerging field of vertical farming. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2015