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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Scientists at the University of South Australia are creating virtual reality maps of forest plantations to advance forestry management.
ABC (Australia) From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2023
Researchers used eye-tracking software to analyze building inspectors' gaze patterns to gain insights into safety assessment behaviors.
Penn State News From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2023
Wenlong Li and colleagues at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have transformed Venus flytraps into biological robots.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2023
Disputed Google research is receiving further scrutiny, despite the company's inaction in open-sourcing its data or source code as promised.
Gregory Goth Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | March 29, 2023
Software developer hosting service GitHub launched a new version of its Copilot coding assistant powered by the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 (GPT-4) multimodal...Fast Company From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2023
With Microsoft's HoloLens and a special application developed by MIT researchers, AR can be used to find hidden objects.
CNet From ACM News | March 27, 2023
The Norwegian container ship Yara Birkeland eventually will be a crewless vessel that navigates via radar and cameras, feeding sensor data to artificial intelligence...BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2023
General Bytes reported that over $1.5 million in bitcoin was drained from Internet-accessible wallets via its bitcoin ATMs by hackers that exploited a previously...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | March 27, 2023
Researchers have developed a method for certifying that quantum computers generate truly random numbers without having to inspect the process.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2023
Researchers developed the Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan to show how hackers can exploit the vulnerabilities of smart device microphones and voice assistants...University of Texas at San Antonio From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2023
White-collar workers may soon face the AI disruption everyone's been panicking about. But the news may be better than you think.
Wired From ACM News | March 23, 2023
Startup Runway AI Inc. has rolled out Gen 2, an artificial intelligence model that produces short video clips based on brief user prompts.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2023
University of Virginia (UVA) researchers found that the Control-IQ diabetes management system improved blood sugar control in 2- to 6-year-olds with type 1 diabetes...UVA Health Newsroom From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2023
Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
Esther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | March 23, 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers engineered the Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System (WORMS) to revolutionize space robotics.
Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2023