Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From Communications of the ACM
Making Connections
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
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Surgeon General Issues New Advisory About Effects Social Media Use Has on Youth Mental Health
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy urges action to ensure social media environments are healthy and safe.
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Taiwan Is Running Low on Engineers
Leaders of Taiwan's semiconductor industry fear the nation's supply of engineers will be unable to meet demand for new talent.
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Engineering a New Way to Feed Gorillas
Georgia Institute of Technology scientists have built an automatic feeding machine for gorillas at Zoo Atlanta that allows for more natural foraging.
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The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank
An overreliance on technology startups could have been a major factor in its demise.
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Silicon Valley, Cradle of Computer Chips, Gains Big New Research Center
Applied Materials is betting technical talent at nearby universities and the local companies that design chips will spur innovation quickly, making up for cost...
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E.U. Slaps Meta With Record $1.3 Billion Fine for Data Privacy Violations
Industry representatives argue the ruling creates legal uncertainty for many companies who commonly transfer data across international waters.
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Virtual Fences for Cattle Find a Home on the Range
Cattle ranchers increasingly have access to virtual fences that allow them to use electronic collars to keep their cows from wandering away.
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Congress Really Wants to Regulate A.I., But No One Seems to Know How
Yet another hearing—this one with OpenAI's Sam Altman—has come after a new technology with the possibility to fundamentally alter our lives is already in circulation...
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Facebook Has Crowbarred Open the Pandora's Box of AI, Experts Warn
"You can't prevent people from creating nonsense or dangerous information or whatever."
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Linking IT's Energy Consumption to Carbon Emissions
New guidelines aim to measure, and ultimately reduce, the digital impact of the enterprise on the environment.
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'Digital Twin' of the Titanic Shows Shipwreck in Stunning Detail
Digital imaging by deepwater seabed mapping company Magellan for U.K. TV production company Atlantic Productions has yielded a "digital twin" of the RMS Titanic...
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IBM, Google Give $150 Million for U.S.-Japan Quantum-Computing Push
Quantum computing research has been given a boost at the University of Chicago and Japan's University of Tokyo with a $150-million investment from IBM and Google...
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Your Digital Life Isn't as Permanent as You Think It Is
Google will delete accounts after two years of inactivity, and experts expect more data deletion policies to come.
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Supreme Court Rules for Google, Twitter in Closely Watched Cases
The Court ruled the families of terrorism victims had not shown the companies "aided and abetted" attacks on their loved ones.
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Technologists Develop FatNet Algorithm
The FatNet algorithm can convert any convolutional neural network into a specialized network that is more compatible with an optical artificial intelligence accelerator...
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AI Drug Discovery Is $50-Billion Opportunity for Big Pharma
Drugmakers worldwide are adopting artificial intelligence in the hope of accelerating drug discovery and time to market while cutting costs.
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DarkBert AI Was Trained Using Dark Web Data
Researchers turned to the depths of the dark web to train this new language model
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Can We Stop Runaway A.I.?
Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it?
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