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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...Bloomberg From ACM News | December 21, 2016
The launch of the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft in western China last month marked another great leap forward for the nation's space program and its ambition to send manned...Bloomberg News From ACM News | November 28, 2016
China has green-lit a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies' technology and hamstring their operations...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 7, 2016
There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.BloombergBusinessweek From ACM News | October 27, 2016
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | October 13, 2016
Six days after Memphis voters went to the polls last October to elect a mayor and other city officials, a local computer programmer named Bennie Smith sat on his...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 4, 2016
Earlier this summer, NASA announced that ARM Holdings' A53 will be the microprocessor core design at the heart of the agency's next generation of spacecraft.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 30, 2016
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.Bloomberg From ACM Careers | August 10, 2016
You devoted your life to human-driven transportation, engineering SUVs at Ford and taking Hyundai (as U.S. CEO and president) to record levels of sales in the U...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2016
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | July 28, 2016
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | July 21, 2016
Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase—or...Bloomberg From ACM News | June 22, 2016
Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | June 10, 2016
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 26, 2016
On a recent Monday in April, more than 100 executives from some of the world's largest financial institutions gathered for a private meeting at the Times Square...Bloomberg From ACM News | May 3, 2016
On one end of a dock at America's busiest port, tractor-trailers haul containers through dense, stop-and-go traffic. Sometimes they collide.Bloomberg From ACM News | April 26, 2016