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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.
A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed an application to estimate air quality by analyzing a large number of photos of a...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2016
Google DeepMind just entered the 90s. Fresh off their success in playing the ancient game of Go, DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence can navigate a 3D maze...New Scientist From ACM News | February 8, 2016
This delicate, glowing flower could one day save your life. It’s the latest example of "4D printing"–3D printed objects that change their shape over time—and it...New Scientist From ACM News | January 28, 2016
Autobahn is an artificial intelligence system that can use Google Street View images to optimize a driving route for a particular type of scenery. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2016
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...New Scientist From ACM News | January 12, 2016
Researchers have developed a robot that can watch people work, learn the steps that make up the task, and remind people when they forget a step. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 11, 2016
Blind people have long relied on sound as a substitution for sight, and some even use echolocation to navigate around objects. But it turns out that sound can be...New Scientist From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.New Scientist From ACM News | October 13, 2015
Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found a loosely organized clump of gold nanoparticles can be made to do calculations.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2015
Last Saturday I took part in a battle of wits at Bletchley Park, the stately home that housed the U.K.’s codebreakers during the second world war.New Scientist From ACM News | September 22, 2015
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...New Scientist From ACM News | September 18, 2015
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.New Scientist From ACM News | September 17, 2015
The ability to digitally simulate physical systems such as the brain to avoid the ethical dilemmas of experimentation on living subjects creates new dilemmas.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 16, 2015
Some mathematicians think the field of mathematics is approaching a limit that cannot yield further breakthroughs without computerized assistance. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
A team of researchers has used a detailed computer analysis of the 2013-2014 Spanish football league to better understand various teams' different patterns of play...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2015