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The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent...Reuters From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...CNET From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor and Council co-Chair of the international Research Data Alliance Francine Berman joined with Google Vice President Vint...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
Rodney Brooks' startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment. From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
A newly published study found that positive comments on a website create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.Scientific American From ACM News | August 8, 2013
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, weighs in on changes at the national and local level that are making science, technology, engineering...The White House Blog From ACM Careers | August 8, 2013
For the Curiosity rover, it's just another day on Mars—but back on Earth, Tuesday was a day to look back at the $2.5 billion mission's first year, including a moment...NBC News From ACM News | August 7, 2013
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...BBC News From ACM News | August 7, 2013
MIT Ph.D. student Kuang Xu has found a way to apply predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 7, 2013
If something can connect to a network, it can be hacked. Computers and phones are still popular targets, but increasingly so are cars, home security systems, TVs...CNN From ACM News | August 6, 2013
The U.S. government's efforts to recruit talented hackers could suffer from the recent revelations about its vast domestic surveillance programs, as many private...Reuters From ACM Careers | August 6, 2013
The number of computer and IT jobs grew 13 percent from 2003 to 2012, but the number of people with degrees in these fields from U.S. colleges and universities...CBS MoneyWatch From ACM TechNews | August 5, 2013
Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 2, 2013
Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 2, 2013
For three nights in July, a big rig traveled slowly down the roads of suburban Illinois bearing an American flag and the warning sign "Oversize Load." The warning...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 2, 2013
A research paper that was highlighted last year at an international symposium is the winner of the National Security Agency's first annual Science of Security (SoS)...National Security Agency From ACM Careers | August 1, 2013
Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013.Nature News From ACM Careers | August 1, 2013
Los Alamos National Laboratory opened a recently declassified vault that was used to store nuclear materials during the Cold War to tours last month. Los Alamos National Laboratory From ACM Careers | August 1, 2013