Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools.
Wired From ACM News | November 3, 2022
The company's new smart gadget uses radar to track your breathing while you sleep. It's part of Amazon's plan to weave its products invisibly into your life.
Wired From ACM News | October 4, 2022
Scientists have recruited volunteers to identify clouds on Mars through the Zooniverse, a platform that hosts crowdsourced citizen projects.
Wired From ACM TechNews | August 9, 2022
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused Ishan Wahi, a former product manager at the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange, of insider trading and securities fraud...Wired From ACM News | August 9, 2022
A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can't do to people, like whether it's okay to deploy lie detectors at borders.
Wired From ACM News | July 7, 2022
The Digital Services Act will extract more new information from the young app than from older platforms like Facebook.
Wired From ACM News | May 12, 2022
Scientists are monitoring Italy’s Mount Etna through fiber-optic cables, using distributed acoustic sensing to detect seismic signals that conventional sensors...Wired From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2022
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people's faces.
Wired From ACM News | April 7, 2022
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2022
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
The company's ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off.
Wired From ACM News | March 3, 2022
Sweeping rules will cover algorithms that set prices, control search results, recommend videos, and filter content.
Wired From ACM News | February 22, 2022
Some animals and plants are rapidly adapting to our warming, polluted world. How alarming that is depends on your perspective.
Wired From ACM News | February 8, 2022
The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better.
Wired From ACM News | December 16, 2021
Acoustic waves can detect all kinds of explosions and volcanic activity, but it's hard to place sensors at sea—unless you've got a bird with a backpack.
Wired From ACM News | November 30, 2021
Fires spread with a complexity that scientists can pick apart little by little, thanks to lasers, sensors, and some of the most powerful computers.
Wired From ACM News | September 30, 2021