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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Big defense budgets during the aughts financed the deployment of thousands of robots, including unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles, to Iraq and Afghanistan...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 6, 2012
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 28, 2012
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 13, 2012
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 9, 2012
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 13, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 22, 2011
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 15, 2011
Before he died on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs left clues that he was working on a new product that would revolutionize how we interact with our TVs. "It will have the...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 9, 2011
A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 29, 2011
John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 26, 2011
The National Security Agency, the top U.S. electronic intelligence service, has joined a probe of the October cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. amid evidence...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 31, 2011
By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that’s what International Business...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 29, 2010
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows computer operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 23, 2010
New York City is almost halfway to its goal of installing 3,000 cameras as part of a network to monitor signs of terrorism, about triple the number it had in...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 12, 2010