Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The face of a killer constructed from DNA left at the scene of a crime: it sounds like science fiction. But revealing the face of a criminal based on their genes...BBC News From ACM News | June 24, 2015
Final preparations are being made by 24 robotics teams about to compete for $3.5m (£2.3m) worth of prizes in a Pentagon-backed competition.BBC News From ACM News | June 4, 2015
The investigation into the cause of a fatal train derailment in the U.S. city of Philadelphia this week has already yielded its first conclusion: it could have...BBC News From ACM News | May 14, 2015
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.BBC News From ACM News | May 5, 2015
Something about a black hole just pulls you in. Sure, its gravity is so strong that not even light can elude its grasp. But, there's something else, something harder...BBC News From ACM News | May 4, 2015
The director of Google's self-driving car project says he wants self-driving cars to be standard on roads within five years. BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 20, 2015
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.BBC News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Former ACM president Vint Cerf worries a forthcoming "digital Dark Age" will leave behind mountains of data people will no longer be able to access. BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 13, 2015
It's a video which is bound to go viral. Spot sets off down an office corridor, and then out into the open air.BBC News From ACM News | February 12, 2015
It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...BBC News From ACM News | February 11, 2015
An original part of one of the United Kingdom's pioneering computers has been donated to a project that is working to rebuild the machine. BBC News From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2015
French coder Olivier Poudade has created BootChess, which is only 487 bytes in size, and the code can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | January 30, 2015