Researchers at Google have developed a robotic dog and taught it to walk by showing it motion-capture videos of real dogs walking on treadmills.
Wired From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2020
A new robotic skeleton is embedded with 32 photodiodes and 30 adjacent LEDs, and is covered by a squishy skin of reflective silicone that keeps the device's own...Wired From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2020
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper's son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished.
Wired From ACM News | February 3, 2020
Intel said it will release yet another patch for a microarchitectural data sampling vulnerability that allows hackers to fool microprocessors into exposing protected...Wired From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2020
The computing power required for AI landmarks, such as recognizing images and defeating humans at Go, increased 300,000-fold from 2012 to 2018.
Wired From ACM News | January 22, 2020
A new attack called Plundervolt gives attackers access to the sensitive data stored in a processor's secure enclave.
Wired From ACM News | December 11, 2019
Doug Engelbart didn't just want to show off new technology. He wanted to demonstrate a system for improving humanity.
Wired From ACM News | December 6, 2019
A new paper concludes that it takes more than four times as much energy to mine $1 of bitcoin as mining $1 of copper.
Wired From ACM News | November 22, 2019
Israeli cybersecurity firms Check Point and Intezer have charted Russian hackers' toolkits from wide-ranging analysis of 2,500 malware samples.
Wired From ACM TechNews | September 25, 2019
Google researchers discovered thousands of iPhones have been compromised with sophisticated spyware over the last two years, contradicting assumptions about the...Wired From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2019
For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase.
Wired From ACM News | August 19, 2019
Hackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the Zoom videoconferencing desktop app to commandeer a user's Webcam, a security researcher warns.
Wired From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2019
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials are concerned that 5G wireless phones could interfere with weather forecasts.
Wired From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2019
Artists in the underground electronic music culture are performing live-coding shows or "algoraves," in which they program software algorithms to create new forms...Wired From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2019
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we're all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2019
At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from...Wired From ACM News | March 13, 2019
The U.S. National Security Agency has chosen to open source the cybersecurity tool Ghidra, a reverse-engineering platform that takes "compiled" software and "decompiles"...Wired From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2019