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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.
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
Technology Review From ACM News | November 8, 2018
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4-...Technology Review From ACM News | November 6, 2018
A few years ago, Edward Snowden, a contractor working for the US National Security Agency, leaked documents that showed the ways in which intelligence agenciestapped...Technology Review From ACM News | October 29, 2018
A new software bot can find bugs in code and write patches with effectiveness comparable to that of human developers.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2018
Researchers have found that machine vision systems cannot process optical illusions in the same way humans can.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2018
University of Washington in Seattle researchers have developed a brain-to-brain network that transmits thoughts among members of a group.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 3, 2018
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
Technology Review From ACM News | September 28, 2018
A two-legged robot developed at the University of Bonn in Germany won the soccer World Cup for adult-size robots this summer in Montreal, Canada.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2018
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has created a box that, when placed in a user's home, can track his/her physiological signals, even through walls...MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2018
That's the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.
Technology Review From ACM News | September 12, 2018
Google says the cooling systems of several of its data centers are now governed by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 21, 2018
Fusion is a robotic project to explore how people may be able to work together to control, or augment, a person's body.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2018
U.S. Defense researchers say they have created the first forensic tools for catching fake videos, known as "deepfakes," created with artificial intelligence.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2018
The first forensics tools for catching revenge porn and fake news created with AI have been developed through a program run by the US Defense Department.
Technology Reviewe From ACM News | August 7, 2018
AI researchers have demonstrated a self-teaching algorithm that gives a robot hand remarkable new dexterity.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 1, 2018
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
Technology Review From ACM News | July 25, 2018
A new machine learning algorithm can spot specific patterns in mathematical structures and apply them to extract interesting sequences from randomly generated ones...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2018
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...Technology Review From ACM News | June 12, 2018