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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.
Researchers found running datacenters at higher temperatures could reduce their energy consumption significantly while maintaining computational performance.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2023
Researchers calculated a significant carbon footprint for some Internet service-providing satellite constellations.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2023
Scientists evaluated eight artificial intelligence-based pedestrian detectors used in driverless car research, and found they may have difficulty detecting children...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2023
Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure exotic phenomena and claiming their creations are truly real.
New Scientist From ACM News | August 10, 2023
The Steady Hand Eye Robot can inject drugs into the back of the eyeball faster and more accurately than surgeons to treat retinal vein occlusion, according to Johns...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2023
Scientists have demonstrated that a quantum version of the popular Monte Carlo algorithm could eventually overtake versions running on classical computers.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 14, 2023
Researchers at Microsoft say they have created elusive quasiparticles called Majorana zero modes–but scientists outside the company are skeptical.
New Scientist From ACM News | June 22, 2023
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, developed a robot gardener that can grow plants as capably as humans, while saving more water.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 22, 2023
Scientists in China and Brazil are testing robotic dogs and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect invasive fire ant nests.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2023
Scientists envision biological computers as technology that could help researchers meet challenges in previously inaccessible domains.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2023
An update rolled out by the Ethereum cryptocurrency reduced the energy needed to produce it, and also fixed a security flaw.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 26, 2023
University of Arizona researchers demonstrated that trapping sound in a simple mechanical device can imitate certain properties of quantum computers.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2023
A software upgrade developed by researchers at France's Polytechnic Institute of Paris improves the efficiency of wind turbines by ensuring they spend more time...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2023
Researchers in France found so-called "cat qubits” (quantum bits) could reduce errors by quantum computers and accelerate the cracking of common encryption algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 6, 2023
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of the West of England, Bristol used the mat of cells that form on top when brewing kombucha to develop flexible electric circuit...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2023
Yuval Werber and colleagues at Israel's University of Haifa invented a drone that makes noise and flashes lights to prevent bats from colliding with turbine blades...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2022