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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.
Artificial intelligence researchers are calling on Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition software to police.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2019
Japanese startup Vaak has developed artificial intelligence software that looks for potential shoplifters on video surveillance footage.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese telecom giant facing multiple criminal indictments in the U.S., is expanding on a Russian company's failed legal argument to...Bloomberg From ACM News | March 8, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co. sued the U.S. government for barring its equipment from certain networks, delivering a legal riposte to American accusations it aids China...Bloomberg From ACM News | March 7, 2019
When anti-government protests erupted on Russia's side of the Caucasus Mountains in October, authorities did something they'd never done before: cut mobile internet...Bloomberg From ACM News | March 5, 2019
Huawei Technologies Co. has turned to a blend of wit, sarcasm and defiance to publicly fight allegations that the world's largest maker of telecommunications equipment...Bloomberg News From ACM News | February 28, 2019
The OpenAI research group has demonstrated artificial intelligence that can compose authentic-looking fake news articles from a few fragments of information.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | February 20, 2019
Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried...Bloomberg From ACM News | February 4, 2019
Pelco, a California-based security camera maker, set lofty sales targets last year for a model with sharper video resolution and other cutting-edge features. That...Bloomberg From ACM News | January 28, 2019
A quantum key distribution fiber-optic cable running through the Holland Tunnel harnesses the power of quantum mechanics to protect critical banking data.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2019
Commuters inching through rush-hour traffic in the Holland Tunnel between Lower Manhattan and New Jersey don't know it, but a technology likely to be the future...Bloomberg From ACM News | January 14, 2019
Last year, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company's administrators...Bloomberg From ACM News | January 4, 2019
A Canadian startup has created a life-size digital avatar to help retail brands looking for ways to boost falling in-store sales in the face of growing competition...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2018
The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 13, 2018
The whistle-blower behind the Cambridge Analytica revelations said the now-defunct data research firm used the fashion preferences of Facebook Inc. users to help...Bloomberg News From ACM News | November 30, 2018
China is taking its rivalry with the U.S. to the heavens, spending at least $9 billion to build a celestial navigation system and cut its dependence on the American...Bloomberg News From ACM News | November 28, 2018
China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points...Bloomberg News From ACM News | November 21, 2018
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | November 20, 2018
Clothing brands collaborated with a Canadian nonprofit to build a website that can identify forests that should be kept pristine, to make supply chains less ecologically...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | November 14, 2018
A company in Japan has developed an automated system that could rival Amazon Go in terms of quickly providing consumers with products.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2018