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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.
The robots-as-a-service model is gaining ground as companies increasingly automate amid the pandemic, worker shortages, and surging demand.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2022
The world's most famous autonomous car shop has lost its CEO and is still getting stymied by traffic cones. What's taking so long?
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | August 24, 2021
The chipmaker helped create Silicon Valley—but cultural complacency and a missed mobile boom have left it far behind competitors.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | April 14, 2021
The U.S.-China trade war is fracturing the world's semiconductor manufacturing base, and that won't stop even if the tariffs do.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek From ACM News | November 11, 2019
In South Korea, which turned on its 5G telecom networks nationwide in April, businesses and organizations are counting on 5G to enable the delivery of new technologies...Bloomberg BusinessWeek From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2019
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
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | October 5, 2018
A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 13, 2018
Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | May 17, 2018
For years, thousands of virtual private networks (VPNs) have allowed people in China to circumvent restrictions on internet access and visit Facebook, Google, YouTube...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 1, 2018
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 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
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
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
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