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When president-elect Barack Obama chose physicist John Holdren as his top science adviser in December 2008, some biomedical researchers worried that the pick signalled...Nature From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2016
Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.The Washington Post From ACM News | August 22, 2016
Technology has changed sports by offering things like instant replay and the ability to determine precisely where a ball is relative to lines on the field and court...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | August 19, 2016
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's...BBC News From ACM News | August 18, 2016
It seemed bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was doing all the right things. In the end, that didn’t stop hackers from stealing $65 million.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 18, 2016
When an anonymous group calling itself Shadow Brokers put up for auction a collection of data it said it stole from the NSA, the group wrote that it would make...Wired From ACM Careers | August 17, 2016
Bitcoin has a bad rap as the preferred currency of drug dealers. But that isn't stopping IBM and some of the world's most conservative businesses from tapping into...CNET From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin will come to occupy a central place...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 15, 2016
Job insecurity is a central theme of the 2016 campaign, fueling popular anger about trade deals and immigration. But economists warn that much bigger job losses...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | August 15, 2016
A controversy is escalating over whether a gene-editing technique proposed as an alternative to the popular CRISPR–Cas9 system actually works.Nature From ACM Careers | August 12, 2016
International Business Machines Corp is in an unusual fix in telling big U.S. banks they can use its Watson software of Jeopardy-winning fame as a cost-saving solution...Reuters From ACM Careers | August 11, 2016
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods. The Washington Post From ACM Careers | August 8, 2016
A roboticist and crucial member of the team that created Google's self-driving car is leaving the company, the latest in a string of departures by important technologists...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 8, 2016
Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America's 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | August 5, 2016
Ten years ago, researchers at Microsoft introduced a breakthrough approach to protecting privacy in the age of big data. Later this year their idea, known as differential...Technology Review From ACM Careers | August 5, 2016
Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that...Reuters From ACM Careers | August 5, 2016