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.
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Matter's Internet of Things Standard and Certification Are Ready
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has officially approved the Matter Internet of Things standard.
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Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
At the heart of every bot-detection tool is a human's gut feeling—and all the messiness that comes with it.
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The Long Road to Driverless Trucks
A partnership between self-driving startup Kodiak Robotics and trucking company U.S. Xpress resulted in a self-driving 18-wheeler driving goods between Dallas and...
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Low-Code Could Replace 'Traditional' Coding Within Months
The Mendix software company estimates low-code adoption climbed from 77% last year to 94% this year, with 40% of businesses now using low-code apps for mission-critical...
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Why Don't You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet?
The biggest reason that "it's taking so long" is that it's hard.
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Siemens Automates Design Process for Testing Chips with Advanced Packaging
Siemens Digital Industries Software's new software system automates the design process for testing chips with several layers of silicon tiles.
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Tool Uncovers Cancer-Driving Structural Variations
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers created the CSVDriver software to identify cancer-generating structural variants from tumor samples via DNA sequence analysis...
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Stuck on the Streets of San Francisco in a Driverless Car
A reporter and a photographer went for a ride in an experimental autonomous vehicle operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise. There were bumps in the road...
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Lossless Data Management Platform for ML, Sharing of Experimental Info
New platform allows automated analysis and lossless sharing of material exploration data in the form of knowledge graphs in electronic laboratory notebooks.
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Software Could Monitor Your Brain while You Rest in Intensive Care
Researchers build algorithm to monitor feeds from heart rate, breathing rate, brain temperature, blood oxygen level, and other sensors.
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Face Recognition for Pigs Could Improve Welfare on Farms
Wenhao Zhang and colleagues at the U.K.'s University of the West of England have developed a facial recognition system for pigs.
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Mars Rover, Drone Prototypes Brave Iceland Winds
This summer, prototype rovers and drones designed to operate on Mars were tested in high winds and other harsh environmental conditions in Iceland.
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AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond
Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in refugee relief and resettlement programs.
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GM's Cruise Recalls, Updates Software in Robotaxis
A crash in June prompted General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit to recall 80 robotaxis and update their software.
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Next Generation of Hearing Aids Reads Lips Through Masks
An international team of researchers developed a system that can read lips accurately through face masks using radio-frequency sensing and artificial intelligence...
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Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research
Computer proof assistants are being used to create online libraries of mathematical theorems and proofs.
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Everything Apple Announced
Wednesday's iPhone launch event saw the release of four new iPhone models, plus an Apple Watch built to take a beating.
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What Deep Learning Algorithms Can Teach Us About Snow
The DeepPrecip neural network developed by Fraser King and colleagues at the University of Waterloo models weather in order to measure annual snowfall and snowmelt...
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