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Researchers at University College London in the U.K. discovered a Twitter botnet that could be comprised of more than 350,000 accounts.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2017
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2017
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Machine-learning artificial intelligences become more capable with experience, but the trade-off is a lack of understanding about the nature of their intelligence...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2016
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2016
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.New Scientist From ACM News | November 7, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2016
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2016
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...New Scientist From ACM News | October 31, 2016
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the...New Scientist From ACM News | October 17, 2016
The first legal framework for autonomous vehicles was outlined in a recently proposed bill in Germany governing how such cars perform in potentially deadly crashes...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2016
Humble bacterial spores are taking us closer to an age of DNA information storage, thanks to new ways of protecting archived data from corruption as well as from...New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2016
Computers that formulate arguments could lead to "research engines" to inform decision-making across a wide range of fields.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 12, 2016
Some of the best lessons come from the school of hard knocks. But some kit is too delicate or expensive to be subjected to this.New Scientist From ACM News | August 12, 2016
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...New Scientist From ACM News | August 5, 2016