The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...Technology Review From ACM News | July 28, 2017
Last year, a Long March 2D rocket took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert carrying a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient...Technology Review From ACM News | July 12, 2017
Every city has at least one dangerous intersection where cars, trucks, and buses jostle for space with pedestrians and bicyclists, often resulting in injury, and...Technology Review From ACM News | June 7, 2017
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...Technology Review From ACM News | May 23, 2017
Electric grids worldwide are increasingly vulnerable to attack as new technologies like smart meters and analytical software are added to them, with mature systems...Technology Review From ACM News | May 18, 2017
As the dust settles from the global ransomware attack that has crippled systems in more than 150 countries since Friday, the U.S. government's shadowy process for...Technology Review From ACM News | May 17, 2017
What looks like a tiny mechanical ostrich chasing after a car is actually a significant leap forward for robot-kind.
Technology Review From ACM News | May 3, 2017
Dance Dance Convolution is a new system that takes as an input the raw audio files of pop songs, and produces dance routines as an output.
Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2017
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...Technology Review From ACM News | March 30, 2017
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Technology Review From ACM News | March 28, 2017
Intelligence agents and military operatives may come to rely heavily on machine learning to parse huge quantities of data, and to control a growing arsenal of autonomous...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2017
This month IBM and Google both said they aim to commercialize quantum computers within the next few years (Google specified five), selling access to the exotic...Technology Review From ACM News | March 20, 2017
In the red corner, weighing in with just five qubits, a quantum computer from the University of Maryland in College Park. In the blue corner, also with five qubits...Technology Review From ACM News | February 22, 2017
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 10, 2017
A personalized news recommendation application collects data about the user to suggest relevant stories without sending any personal information to a remote server...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 26, 2017
The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...Technology Review From ACM News | January 24, 2017