Self-driving AI cars have been a staple in popular culture for some time—any child of the 1980s will fondly remember both the Autobots and Knight Rider's KITT—but...Ars Technica From ACM News | October 29, 2014
Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 26, 2014
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...Ars Technica From ACM News | June 16, 2014
Take a tour through the research laboratories at any university physics department or national lab, and much of what you will see defines "cutting edge."Ars Technica From ACM News | May 8, 2014
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | April 30, 2014
The question of whether online broadcast television is to remain in the hands of a stodgy industry that once declared the VCR the enemy is being put directly before...Ars Technica From ACM News | April 21, 2014
Ernest Rutherford, pioneer in studying the world inside atoms, famously remarked that all science is either physics or stamp collecting.Ars Technica From ACM News | February 26, 2014
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...Ars Technica From ACM News | February 4, 2014
On January 25, 2004, a strange object fell out of the sky on a distant planet—and when it hit the surface, it started to bounce.Ars Technica From ACM News | January 27, 2014
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits.Ars Technica From ACM News | January 6, 2014