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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.
New software can predict how objects captured by a computing device's camera will most likely behave. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2016
Researchers have trained a machine-learning algorithm to spot warning signs for depression on Instagram by analyzing the composition of posted images. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2016
Not everything belongs on the Internet, and the American electoral process is a textbook example. But 31 states don't see it that way.Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2016
A project to data-mine mobile phone records found people invest more in relationships where there exists a risk of the relationship weakening. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2016
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...Technology Review From ACM News | August 8, 2016
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2016
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2016
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2016
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2016
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2016
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2016
A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the National Institutes of Health.Technology Review From ACM News | June 21, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.Technology Review From ACM News | June 6, 2016
A team at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has conducted the first large-scale analysis of ad-block detection on the Internet. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2016
University of Louisville researchers are studying how malevolent artificial intelligenes might be designed, and the conditions in which they might be create.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2016