A new method of tracking unfamiliar drones leverages consumer smartphones to detect the Wi-Fi signals of nearby drones.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2019
Researchers at Marist College and IBM have identified a simple but effective way to hack a PTP network, altering the timing of slave clocks by 2,149.5 minutes after...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2019
Researchers at Nanjing University in China have developed a quantum drone to serve as an airborne node in a future quantum network.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2019
Researchers have created a compact accelerator that relieves a CPU of the "garbage collection" task of deleting redundant or irrelevant data from apps to make more...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2019
Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 4, 2019
Researchers have developed transmitting and receiving equipment that could squeeze 26.2 terabits per second through the MAREA cable.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2019
A survey on the love/hate relationships between software engineers and coding languages found Google's Go language was the global leader.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2019
The University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence and the Czech Republic's GoodAI are partnering to launch the Animal-AI Olympics.
...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2019
Researchers have developed robots that can demilitarize up to 21 warheads in an eight-hour shift, which equates to 13,524 bomblets being recycled per day.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2019
Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric have developed sensor-security technology for detecting inconsistencies in sensor measurements when a system is under attack....IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2019
A new encryption system performs schemes that classical computers can use, but quantum computers cannot crack.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2019
The Zillow Prize competition pitted nearly 4,000 teams against one another in an effort to develop a computerized system that could predict the future sale price...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 6, 2019
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2019
The Open Group information technology consortium has announced the establishment of a data scientist certification program to address the shortage of data scientists...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2019
The Indeed job-search site says data scientist job postings from U.S. employers continue to outnumber interested applicants.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 23, 2019
A few days before Christmas, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that devotes more than US $1.2 billion to a national effort dedicated to quantum...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 11, 2019
The Ethereum Foundation, and the broader open source movement devoted to advancing the cryptocurrency bitcoin, plan to field-test an overhaul of Ethereum's code...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2019