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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.
Inside a small laboratory in Boston's seaport district, buried within a jumble of lasers, lenses, mirrors, and a tangle of wiring, is a tiny chip that might be...Technology Review From ACM News | November 29, 2018
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
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
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
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
When Amit Khera explains how he predicts disease, the young cardiologist's hands touch the air, arranging imaginary columns of people: 30,000 who have suffered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 26, 2018
Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This...Technology Review From ACM News | February 23, 2018
Scientists are investigating silicon as a key ingredient in the creation of scalable quantum computers.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2018
After atmospheric scientist Ivana Cvijanovic began pushing a computerized climate simulation to its limits, she noticed a disturbing result: as Arctic sea ice nearly...Technology Review From ACM News | February 9, 2018