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Losing the Key
From ACM Careers

Losing the Key

In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.

Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming
From ACM News

Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming

As it stands, the touchscreen experience is confined to a flat, two-dimensional world.

Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones
From ACM News

Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones

To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...

Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy
From ACM Opinion

Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy

When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products.

Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats
From ACM News

Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats

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...

How to Watch the World Cup in the ­.s. Without Paying For Tv
From ACM News

How to Watch the World Cup in the ­.s. Without Paying For Tv

Most of the world can watch the World Cup for free. Not so much in the U.S.

Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton to Kick Off World Cup
From ACM TechNews

Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton to Kick Off World Cup

A paralyzed young adult using an exoskeleton controlled by his thoughts took the first kick of the World Cup in Thursday's opening ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil...

World Cup 2014 to Be Most Hi-Tech Football Event Ever
From ACM News

World Cup 2014 to Be Most Hi-Tech Football Event Ever

Football is full of "what ifs".

How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You
From ACM News

How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You

Sometimes it's the promise of sex that fools you.

Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
From ACM News

Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones

It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.

Virtual Soccer Now a World Cup Fan's Best Prediction Tool
From ACM News

Virtual Soccer Now a World Cup Fan's Best Prediction Tool

Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2014 World Cup, signaling the start of a global guessing game about which two teams will appear in the finals of the 64-match...

World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
From ACM Opinion

World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine

During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...

Tetris at 30: An Interview with the Historic Puzzle Game's Creator
From ACM Opinion

Tetris at 30: An Interview with the Historic Puzzle Game's Creator

Thirty years ago today, a little game about dropping geometrically strange thingamajigs — originally clusters of punctuation marks—into neat, lookalike rows kicked...

App Paired With Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time
From ACM TechNews

App Paired With Sensor Measures Stress and Delivers Advice to Cope in Real Time

ParentGuardian is a smartphone-based system designed to detect stress in parents and help decrease that stress during interactions with their children. 

A Fast Look at Swift, Apple's New Programming Language
From ACM Opinion

A Fast Look at Swift, Apple's New Programming Language

If anyone outside Apple saw Swift coming, they certainly weren't making any public predictions.

How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations
From ACM Careers

How Ebay's Research Laboratories Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Fashion Recommendations

If you've ever puzzled over what to wear in the morning, you might also have wondered whether you could leave the choice to an algorithm that could recommend a...

Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
From ACM Opinion

Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?

Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.

360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift
From ACM News

360-Degree Camera Shoots Vr Movies For Oculus Rift

Step into the silver screen with movies shot using the Panopticam.

New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones
From ACM News

New Chip to Bring Holograms to Smartphones

In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head.

Repairing the Brain
From ACM News

Repairing the Brain

Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten?
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