A team of researchers combined microscopy, biochemistry, and artificial intelligence to identify previously unknown components of human cells.
UC San Diego Health News From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2021
Spiderwebs inspired researchers at the Netherlands' Delft University of Technology to design one of the world's most precise microchip sensors.
TU Delft (Netherlands) From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2021
To determine your risk, start-ups are applying technology to data points as various as your college and the mileage on the used car you want to buy.
The New York Times From ACM News | November 30, 2021
The company also performed well last month in a test of its ability to match two different photos of the same person.
The New York Times From ACM News | November 24, 2021
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
Don Monroe From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2021
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2021
A new database shows the movement of the river centerlines of the 48 most threatened deltas in the world over the past 40 years.
University of Texas at Austin News From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2021
Researchers at Germany's Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Russia's Ural Federal University found search engines often return inaccurate health information...Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2021
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain.
SciTechDaily From ACM News | November 5, 2021
Scientists have developed a secure identity verification technique based on the precept that information cannot exceed the speed of light.
McGill University Newsroom (Canada) From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2021
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2021
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.
Esther Shein From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2021
Researchers have developed an algorithm to convert old newspapers into searchable data by identifying and ranking people's names in order of their importance.
University at Buffalo News Center From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2021
Hundreds of professional footballers (soccer players) have threatened litigation against the data collection industry.
BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2021
Major cloud computing companies are competing to hire engineers, squeezing out others as the pandemic has driven up demand for an already scarce workforce.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 8, 2021
A spokesman for Check Point said it was the company's "strong suspicion" that Twitch's code had truly been leaked, which was "potentially disastrous."
The New York Times From ACM News | October 7, 2021
A new algorithm enables the smallest, most relevant subset of features to be selected from high-dimensional datasets.
University of Groningen (Netherlands) From ACM TechNews | September 27, 2021