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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.
Last month, federal agencies and utility executives held GridEx IV, a biennial event where officials responsible for hundreds of local utilities game out scenarios...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 22, 2017
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 21, 2017
The prospect of blockchain technology remaking financial services just moved a step closer to reality after banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 20, 2017
The headquarters of Fanuc sit in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, on a sprawling, secluded campus of 22 windowless factories and dozens of office buildings.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 23, 2017
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 13, 2017
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 10, 2017
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 5, 2017
Recent experiments utilized a method that could enable quantum computers to perform calculations beyond the capabilities of today's most powerful supercomputers...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2017
The most labor intensive part of putting together a pair of Nikes is assembling the "upper"—the flexible part of the shoe that sits on top of your foot.
Bloomberg From ACM Careers | September 1, 2017
China aims to make the artificial intelligence industry a "new, important" driver of economic expansion by 2020, according to a development plan issued by the State...Bloomberg From ACM News | July 21, 2017
India's Gridlock Hackathon aims to find solutions to the congested roads that cost the economy billions of dollars.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2017
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...Bloomberg From ACM News | June 13, 2017
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
Bloomberg News From ACM News | May 1, 2017
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...Bloomberg News From ACM Careers | April 25, 2017
In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren't enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to...Bloomberg From ACM News | April 17, 2017
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research raise questions about the threat that bots pose to the online gambling industry.
Bloomberg Technology From ACM News | February 1, 2017
Four of the best professional poker players in the world spent most of January holed up at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, losing.
Bloomberg From ACM News | January 31, 2017