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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages … From ACM TechNewsAn 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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Decoding Brainwaves to Identify What Music Is Being Listened To
A brainwave-monitoring technique created by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Essex can identify to which specific piece of music people are listening.
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Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs
Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible, even when some steps can cancel out others.
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ChatGPT Stole Your Work. So What Are You Going to Do?
Creators need to pressure the courts, the market, and regulators before it's too late.
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TAU Robot Can 'Smell' Odors Using Biological Sensor
Scientists at Israel's Tel Aviv University have created a biological sensor to help robots detect and interpret odors.
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Post-Quantum Cryptography
Cryptographers seek algorithms quantum computers cannot break.
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Computational Linguistics Finds Its Voice
Advances in artificial intelligence permit computers to converse with humans in seemingly realistic ways.
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Qubits Are at the Heart of Quantum Computing. They're Also Its Greatest Weakness
Quantum states are incredibly delicate and easily destroyed. The perfect solution could lie in imperfect crystals.
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Canada Launches National Quantum Strategy to Create Jobs, Advance Quantum Technologies
On Jan. 13, Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry François-Philippe Champagne announced Canada's National Quantum Strategy to enhance and expand...
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3D Printing Reaches New Heights with Two-Story Home
A massive three-dimensional printer is being used to build what is thought to be the first 3D-printed two-story home in the U.S.
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Turning Robots into Skilled Waiters
Researchers at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM) adopted the pendulum's underlying mathematics to develop a model that could improve robots' drinks...
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Global IT Spending Decreased in 2022
The devices segment of Gartner's spending forecast is projected to fall 5.1% this year to roughly $685 billion, after dropping more than 10% in 2022.
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Quantum Computing Has a Noise Problem
Today's devices can be thrown off by the slightest environmental interference. Algorithmiq is developing ways to counteract this and harness quantum's power.
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Crypto Meltdown, What Crypto Meltdown?
Despite trillions of dollars of losses, a batch of bankruptcies and one very high profile arrest, blockchain's devotees remain devoted.
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Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse
Metaverse technologies unveiled at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2023) included sensory products that can replicate sensations and even odors in virtual...
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Telehealth Cuts Healthcare's Carbon Footprint, Patient's Costs During Pandemic
Researchers found that using telehealth for ambulatory visits lowered patients' costs and carbon footprint and saved time and lives during the first two years of...
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Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Microelectronics
MIT researchers lay out a strategy for how universities can help the U.S. regain its place as a semiconductor superpower.
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The Dawn of Solid-State Quantum Networks
Researchers demonstrated high-visibility quantum interference between two independent quantum dots connected by approximately 300-kilometer/186.4-mile optical fibers...
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Hype around Quantum Computing Recedes over Lack of Practical Uses
China claims to have made a major breakthrough, but Western experts say any commercial benefits are still years away.
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A.I.-Powered 'Robot Lawyer' Will Appear in a U.S. Court for the First Time
Is it legal?
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