The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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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 hotel that opened in China last month utilizes robots and a suite of other high-tech tools that drastically reduce the hotel's cost of human labor.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2019
In May, Google introduced a feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type, but will not suggest gender-based pronouns.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2018
Amazon discontinued an artificial intelligence recruiting tool its machine learning specialists developed to automate the hiring process because it was biased against...Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 12, 2018
The Virtual Singapore project will offer state agencies and, eventually, the public access to a three-dimensional model of the city.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 28, 2018
One day, the weather could drive your domestic schedule. Your dishwasher springs to life at the windiest time of day. The washing machine starts spinning when the...Reuters From ACM News | August 6, 2018
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform is analyzing players' emotions at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | July 6, 2018
It can crack your smartphone password in seconds, rip personal data from call and messaging apps, and peruse your contact book.
Reuters From ACM News | May 31, 2018
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...Reuters From ACM News | April 27, 2018
Now, as a trade war with the United States looms, a government decision to accelerate the development of the domestic chip industry underlines how far those goals...Reuters From ACM Careers | April 24, 2018
China is looking to catch up with rivals like the United States and Germany in high-end technology, making a major push with a "Made in China 2025" strategy that...Reuters From ACM Careers | April 23, 2018
At a highway check point on the outskirts of Beijing, local police are this week testing out a new security tool: smart glasses that can pick up facial features...Reuters From ACM News | March 12, 2018
The chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday "operational limitations" in the Tesla Model S played a "major role" in a May...Reuters From ACM News | September 13, 2017
When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko, he found that everyone in the office used the same login password.
Reuters From ACM News | August 1, 2017
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time...Reuters From ACM News | June 28, 2017
The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national...Reuters From ACM News | June 14, 2017
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...Reuters From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel...Reuters From ACM News | April 6, 2017
A new noninvasive brain-computer interface has enabled researchers in the U.K. to communicate with patients who are totally paralyzed and unable to talk.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | February 3, 2017
Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines.
Reuters From ACM News | January 20, 2017
ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...Reuters From ACM News | December 16, 2016