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­c Berkeley Researchers May Track Twitter Hackers
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­c Berkeley Researchers May Track Twitter Hackers

A $10 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will enable University of California, Berkeley researchers to spend the next five years exploring...

Google Adds Coral Reef Panoramas to Street View Maps
From ACM TechNews

Google Adds Coral Reef Panoramas to Street View Maps

Google recently added panoramas of coral reefs to its Street View services, enabling users to navigate their way around the sites.

Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions
From ACM News

Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...

Why Your Next 'passw0rd' Might Not Be a Password
From ACM News

Why Your Next 'passw0rd' Might Not Be a Password

It's been a rough year for passwords. First, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online. Soon after, millions of passwords from eHarmony and Yahoo users...

From ACM News

­m Researchers Mine Data to ­ncover Terrorist Threats

U.S. counterterrorism efforts monitor and sort vast databases of information for clues on potential plots. Now a team of University of Maryland researchers have...

Hubble Goes to the Extreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the ­niverse
From ACM News

Hubble Goes to the Extreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the ­niverse

Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.

Machine Learning Saves Babies!
From ACM TechNews

Machine Learning Saves Babies!

Hospitals collect an enormous amount of data on premature babies. Computer scientists are using machine learning to find common patterns in the data, create new...

Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes ­niverses
From ACM Opinion

Meet Mira, the Supercomputer That Makes ­niverses

Cosmology is the most ambitious of sciences. Its goal, plainly stated, is to describe the origin, evolution, and structure of the entire universe, a universe that...

Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target
From ACM News

Curiosity Finishes Close Inspection of Rock Target

NASA's rover Curiosity touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept. 22, assessing what chemical elements are in the rock called "Jake...

Facebook Can Id Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky
From ACM News

Facebook Can Id Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky

Facebook on Friday confronted a new obstacle over what to do with one of its most vital assets—pictures.

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
From ACM Careers

Employee Shopping: 'acqui-Hire' Is the New Normal in Silicon Valley

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Zynga are on a shopping spree. They're buying small startups with innovative products and apps. But, many times, the tech...

Digging For Drug Facts
From Communications of the ACM

Digging For Drug Facts

With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.

Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
From ACM News

Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive

You know that scene in the film Contact where the "Machine" is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful...

Cameras Know You By Your Walk
From ACM News

Cameras Know You By Your Walk

Everyone knows how easy it is to recognize a friend or family member from their walk—even from a distance.

Bionic Eyes: Sensors That ­se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble
From ACM News

Bionic Eyes: Sensors That ­se Lookout's Brainwaves to Spot Trouble

As good as surveillance technology has gotten at some tasks, computers still frequently fail when it comes to figuring out the difference between a threat and a...

Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?
From ACM News

Does Rise of Biometrics Mean a Future Without Anonymity?

Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...

Google Translates Java to Objective-C With J2objc Tool
From ACM TechNews

Google Translates Java to Objective-C With J2objc Tool

Java developers can more easily build apps for the iPhone and iPad using a new open source command-line tool released by Google.  

Scientists Ponder Interstellar Travel at Nasa-Backed Space Summit
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Scientists Ponder Interstellar Travel at Nasa-Backed Space Summit

In one room, scientists debated whether the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer will help find a way to bend the space-time continuum and make interstellar travel...

Blue Brain Project Accurately Predicts Connections Between Neurons
From ACM TechNews

Blue Brain Project Accurately Predicts Connections Between Neurons

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's Blue Brain Project has identified key principles that determine synapse-scale connectivity by virtually reconstructing...

From Gps and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing-2020
From ACM TechNews

From Gps and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing-2020

Spatial computing is a set of ideas and technologies that will transform human understanding of the physical world, agreed attendees at the recently held Spatial...
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