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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.
The Los Angeles Fire Department has partnered with digital location startup What3words, which has assigned a unique three-word name to each of 57 billion 10-foot...CNet From ACM TechNews | July 28, 2021
Live now and enabled by default, Sidewalk keeps other people's devices near your home connected by passing their signals through your Echo and Ring devices.
CNet From ACM News | June 9, 2021
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has requested tougher rules for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving car development.
CNet From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2021
Scientists in the U.K. have developed a technique for counting African elephant populations using satellite camera imagery and a deep learning algorithm.
CNet From ACM TechNews | January 20, 2021
The Voatz electronic-voting company argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that security researchers should only seek flaws in e-voting systems with...CNet From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2020
Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Scence and Technology found that face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail as much as 50% of...CNet From ACM News | July 28, 2020
The tech giants say everyone will get access to the framework for tracking tools, regardless of which version of iOS or Android they use. Not everyone is convinced...CNet From ACM News | April 14, 2020
Waymo has expanded its Open Dataset and invited researchers to tackle one of five challenges related to the data.
CNet From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2020
Researchers have developed an app that will let users know what IoT technologies are operating in the immediate vicinity and what data they are collecting.
CNet From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2020
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia its first three Automated Driving Systems Demonstration Grants to research and develop...CNet From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2019
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg has ordered Georgia not to use its paperless voting machines, election management software, or servers for the 2020 election.
...CNet From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2019
An international team of researchers used a supercomputer and custom-written code to generate the "most detailed" black hole simulation yet.
CNet From ACM TechNews | June 7, 2019
The first Avengers flick hit its dramatic peak when an alien army descended upon New York via a wormhole in the sky.
CNET From ACM News | April 16, 2019
Encryption should have limits. That's the message FBI Director Christopher Wray had for cybersecurity experts Tuesday.
CNET From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2019
Huawei boss Ren Zhengfei is downplaying the idea that there's danger in his company's taking a lead role as 5G networks become a widespread reality.
CNET From ACM News | February 21, 2019
Charles Darwin had no idea what a gene was. If we dropped the father of evolution into 2019, the idea that humans can willfully alter the genes of an entire species...CNET From ACM News | February 6, 2019