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.
To participate in today's global economy, ordinary people must accept an asymmetrical bargain: their lives are transparent to states, banks and corporations, whereas...Scientific American From ACM News | December 15, 2017
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...Scientific American From ACM News | May 26, 2017
Ten years ago Dennis Degray's life changed forever when he slipped and fell while taking out the trash in the rain.
Scientific American From ACM News | February 23, 2017
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
Scientific American From ACM News | February 9, 2017
Patients paralyzed by a spinal cord injury can face a grim and grueling recovery process—one in which regaining function is far from a sure thing. But a new study...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 16, 2016
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | July 26, 2016
Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".Scientific American From ACM News | May 13, 2016
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2016
Anyone who has struggled to pinpoint his or her location in a mall, airport or urban canyon amid skyscrapers has experienced a GPS gap firsthand.Scientific American From ACM News | December 28, 2015
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 10, 2015
Mobile devices have become incredibly popular for their ability to weave modern conveniences such as Internet access and social networking into the fabric of daily...Scientific American From ACM News | August 5, 2015
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2015
Movie audiences who went to theaters this fall to see The Theory of Everything got a glimpse of the challenges physicist Stephen Hawking has overcome to deliver...Scientific American From ACM News | December 2, 2014
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...Scientific American From ACM News | June 17, 2014
When your home computer is hacked, the things at risk are your identity, finances and other digital assets.Scientific American From ACM News | April 2, 2014
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 27, 2013
Computers as we know them have are close to reaching an inflection point—the next generation is in sight but not quite within our grasp.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 14, 2013