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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Am I Getting Sick?
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Am I Getting Sick?

The future of over-the-counter at-home medical tests is trending toward multiple-malady detection.

Europe's Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem
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Europe's Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem

Decentralizing the chain of trust to a blockchain–also known as a distributed ledger–causes additional privacy and security issues.  

Using AI to Fight Food Fraud
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Using AI to Fight Food Fraud

The use of artificial intelligence to test food and beverages to determine whether labels accurately indicate their content.

NFT Thefts and What to Do About Them
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NFT Thefts and What to Do About Them

When someone steals a non-fungible token (NFT), the options for recourse are not always clear.

Cybercriminals Eye Biometrics
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Cybercriminals Eye Biometrics

Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information.

Using AI to Improve Farm Animal Welfare
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Using AI to Improve Farm Animal Welfare

Technology helps to interpret what animals are thinking and feeling, from what they utter and how they move.

Soft Robotics is About More than Building Robots
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Soft Robotics is About More than Building Robots

It's also about building nature.

Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum
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Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum

Fujitsu aims to increase the pace of quantum application development by using the same microprocessors used in the Fugaku supercomputer.

The Future of the Datacenter
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The Future of the Datacenter

Existing and new technologies can help cut datacenters' carbon footprint.

ACM Elects Yannis Ioannidis as President
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ACM Elects Yannis Ioannidis as President

Ioannidis serves on the ACM Digital Library Board, is faculty advisor of his university's ACM Student Chapter, and will chair the ACM Europe Council Working Group...

The Eyes Have It
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The Eyes Have It

Expanding the use of biometrics in device interfaces.

Finding the Fairness in AI
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Finding the Fairness in AI

Algorithmic fairness is more or less obtainable, depending on how you measure it.

ACM Recognizes Far-Reaching Technical Achievements with Special Awards
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ACM Recognizes Far-Reaching Technical Achievements with Special Awards

Award recipients made contributions to areas including secure systems, software, privacy, and artificial intelligence.

The Drones of War
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The Drones of War

Drone makers are donating, or selling at cost, unmanned aerial drones to Ukraine.

Two Papers Selected to Receive 2022 Dijkstra Prizes
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Two Papers Selected to Receive 2022 Dijkstra Prizes

Together, the papers revolutionized both the theory and practice of nonblocking algorithms. 

Anticipating the War's Direction
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Anticipating the War's Direction

Is the U.S. at risk of Russian cyberattacks related to Ukraine?

ACM Recognizes Visionaries Whose Service Benefits All Who Participate In Computing
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ACM Recognizes Visionaries Whose Service Benefits All Who Participate In Computing

Honorees authored influential textbooks, advanced professional organizations, made the World Wide Web accessible to millions, and expanded ACM's global reach.

Collegiate CS Ethics Programs Emerging En Masse
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Collegiate CS Ethics Programs Emerging En Masse

Universities have created new engineering ethics programs, added concentrated subject-matter ethics programs, and made ethics course material available through...

New Approaches to Biometric Security
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New Approaches to Biometric Security

The latest biometric security methods place a priority on contactless identification.

Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net

The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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