The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A prototype wireless contact lens could help treat glaucoma by automatically dispensing drugs when pressure inside the eye becomes excessive.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 18, 2022
Researchers have developed the AirRacket, a virtual reality controller that emits bursts of compressed air to simulate a ball's impact in racket sports.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2022
Renegade staff theoretically could insert undetectable backdoors in third-party artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, enabling hackers to commandeer the AIs...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2022
Researchers have programmed a chemical computer to solve specific problems, following earlier research on encoding data into the system.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2022
Stanford University researchers have developed a three-dimensional printing system that can construct objects in any order, instead of layer by layer.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2022
A circuit board's power consumption can reveal malicious tampering designed to facilitate Trojan attacks to steal sensitive data or crash a device when triggered...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2022
Researchers at China's Zhejiang University found driverless cars could be fooled into seeing red traffic lights as green.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 18, 2022
Scientists found fake profiles produced by artificial intelligence on the business social network LinkedIn can easily deceive people.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2022
Researchers at driverless car company Waymo and Google Research used self-driving vehicles to create a virtual model of San Francisco.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2022
Researchers trained an algorithm to remove facial tattoos from images, in order to improve facial recognition systems.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2022
Researchers found that people have a hard time distinguishing images of human faces created by artificial intelligence from images of real faces.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2022
In the quest to make artificial intelligence that can reason and apply knowledge flexibly, many researchers are focused on fresh insights from neuroscience. Should...New Scientist From ACM News | February 17, 2022
A multinational team determined that methane "ultra-emitter" sites account for about a tenth of the oil and gas industry's global methane emissions.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2022
Researchers have determined that birthday wishes on Twitter can inadvertently expose private data that could jeopardize recipients' online security.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2022
Researchers incorporated a pair of infrared cameras into prototype goggles to help blind and visually impaired people navigate their environment intuitively.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2022
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University programmed a robot to perform minimally invasive keyhole surgery on pigs.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2022
Bitcoin is theoretically vulnerable to hacking by quantum computers, but calculations show they would need to be a million times larger than those that exist today...New Scientist From ACM News | January 27, 2022
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a corkscrew-shaped microrobot that can swim through blood vessels and help drugs unblock clots...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 14, 2022
Researchers developed a computer simulation that taught a virtual robot arm outfitted with a table tennis racket how to return virtual ping pong balls.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 15, 2021