Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, recently launched Tilera, a company that specializes in squeezing cores...Wired News From ACM TechNews | January 24, 2012
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor...Wired From ACM News | January 23, 2012
Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark...Wired From ACM News | January 20, 2012
Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...Wired From ACM News | January 20, 2012
Luiz André Barroso doesn't see Google's data centers as data centers. He sees them as computers the size of warehouses.Wired From ACM News | January 13, 2012
It's been less than a month since the Marines flew their first robotic supply helicopter on its debut combat mission in Afghanistan.Wired From ACM News | January 12, 2012
Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentagon-backed physicists have figured out how to mask entire events by distorting...Wired From ACM News | January 5, 2012
It was an epic space rescue that, in audacity and risk, echoed NASA's campaign to save the astronauts aboard the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission.Wired From ACM News | January 4, 2012
Swipe to unlock could be a thing of the past for next-gen iOS devices. Like current Galaxy Nexus users, iOS users could soon be using facial recognition technology...Wired From ACM News | January 3, 2012
As part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a team of Web and mobile application developers is redesigning social networking for the era of global protests. Wired News From ACM News | December 28, 2011
The brainiacs at IBM made some pretty far-out predictions this week: In five years, they say, you won't need passwords, there will be no more digital divide,...Wired From ACM News | December 28, 2011
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...Wired From ACM News | December 23, 2011
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell University and its partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been approved to build a...Wired From ACM Careers | December 19, 2011
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...Wired From ACM News | December 19, 2011
The Pentagon's intent on weeding out "insider threats"—troops or other military personnel who might be disgruntled enough to (Wiki)leak some documents or mentally...Wired From ACM News | December 16, 2011
Prepare the dissection table. Iran says it’s planning to disassemble its prized acquisition: a CIA-operated drone that apparently crashed in its territory. Its...Wired From ACM News | December 12, 2011