Now a number of female students at one of the country's top universities can use their face to open doors, according to news reports.
The Washington Post From ACM News | May 18, 2017
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...The Washington Post From ACM News | March 10, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned whether critical computer networks can ever be protected from intruders, alarming cybersecurity experts who...The Washington Post From ACM News | January 4, 2017
The founder of startup Comma.ai has released a free software kit in an effort to accelerate autonomous vehicle technology without running afoul of regulators.
The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2016
Bloch was the first U.S. National Science Foundation director to come from a business rather than academic background, and the first without a doctoral degree. ...The Washington Post From ACM News | November 29, 2016
Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | October 31, 2016
The lack of data on how driverless automobiles' performance compares with human drivers makes it difficult to determine the safety benefits of autonomous vehicles...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2016
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Monday announced plans to aggressively influence the launch of driverless car technology. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2016
Researchers at Israel's Ben Gurion University have created a method for disabling the U.S. 911 emergency system with telephony denial-of-service attacks.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2016
Whenever a new iPhone gets announced, there's one feature that every Apple lover is hoping for: improved battery life.The Washington Post From ACM News | September 14, 2016
Inside a metal shed in the Tibetan highlands of western China, thousands of microprocessors flank narrow corridors, generating a constant hum and stifling waves...The Washington Post From ACM News | September 13, 2016
Reports this week of Russian intrusions into U.S. election systems have startled many voters, but computer experts are not surprised.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 31, 2016
Like many in Silicon Valley, technology entrepreneur Bryan Johnson sees a future in which intelligent machines can do things like drive cars on their own and anticipate...The Washington Post From ACM News | August 16, 2016
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 15, 2016
The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 13, 2016
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 11, 2016
More efficient air conditioning via a mobile robot is a goal of researchers at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Energy Engineering.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2016
More than 30 states will be hosting online voting systems by the time of the U.S. presidential election in November, but experts warn such systems are still insecure...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2016
In Canton, Ohio, one of the most common complaints that police chief Bruce Lawver hears is about gunfire. Shots fired. That unnerving pop of a firearm being discharged...The Washington Post From ACM News | April 27, 2016