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The news that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates now says it was a mistake to long ago force Windows PC users to type "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" at start-up is getting tons...NPR From ACM News | September 27, 2013
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.Scientific American From ACM News | September 27, 2013
A DNA analysis challenge posed by the U.S. Department of Defense proved more difficult than many contestants expected, but a winner has emerged.Science From ACM Careers | September 26, 2013
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...ArsTechnica From ACM News | September 26, 2013
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...New Scientist From ACM News | September 26, 2013
Beleaguered gadgetmaker BlackBerry said on Monday that it's signed a tentative agreement to be purchased by a group led by Canadian holding company Fairfax Financial...Time From ACM Opinion | September 25, 2013
When a ground-breaking product called RealPlayer was released in its earliest form in 1995, Steven P. Jobs had yet to return to Apple, Google's future foundersjust...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 25, 2013
Catherine Havasi used more than a decade of artificial intelligence research as the technological foundation for a startup whose commercial software is helping...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 25, 2013
There is a scene in the television series "Boss" in which the mayor of Chicago, played by Kelsey Grammer, is discovered by his wife washing bed sheets by hand at...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | September 23, 2013
Hopes of alien life on Mars were dashed Thursday when a paper published in the journal Scienceconcluded that the Curiosity rover has yet to find any methane gas...CNET From ACM Opinion | September 23, 2013
A team from Cambridge University has devised a simple technique to increase the density of nanotube forests grown on conductive supports. The high density nanotubes...American Institute of Physics From ACM Careers | September 23, 2013
Open source software tends to march into the marketplace step by step, a quiet but steady strategy compared with the grand marketing events of the commercial software...The New York Times From ACM News | September 19, 2013
By translating images into the language spoken by object-recognition systems, then translating them back, researchers hope to explain the recognition systems'...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 19, 2013
"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...The New Yorker From ACM News | September 18, 2013