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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing… From ACM NewsAn 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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First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...
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Chinese Scientists Create Biggest Virtual Universe With World's Fastest Computer
Chinese researchers have produced the largest virtual universe on Sunway TaihuLight, the world's fastest supercomputer, using 10 trillion digital particles. The...
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Obama-Era Computer Science Initiative Surging Ahead Despite Hurdles
The Trump administration's lack of support for $4 billion CSforAll initiative of the Obama administration has spurred agencies such as the U.S. National Science...
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Hackers Plan to Break Into 30 Voting Machines to Put Election Meddling to the Test
Hackers at the DefCon convention announced they will attempt to compromise more than 30 voting systems used in recent elections this weekend to determine whether...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study.
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Complex Biological Computer Commands Living Cells
Researchers have developed a biological computer that functions inside living bacterial cells and tells them what to do, according to a report published yesterday...
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Big Names in Statistics Want to Shake Up Much-Maligned P Value
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered...
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New Grid Study Sees U.S. Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
The U.S. needs to do more to protect its electrical grid against high-impact cyberattacks, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine...
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Two Groups Both Win $7.5M to Study AI, Autonomous Systems
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $15 million to two Cornell University research teams to pursue autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
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There Are More Programming Jobs Than Ever Outside of Silicon Valley
Programming jobs have spread across the U.S. and pooled in other metro areas outside of Silicon Valley, according to data from Glassdoor.
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Meet UrduScript, the First Urdu-Based Programming Language
UrduScript is a new programing language that makes it easier for beginners to learn programming concepts.
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The Data that Transformed AI Research, and Possibly the World
It's not about the algorithm.
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Scientists Build DNA from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
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CPU Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Five Times the Computing Power
Researchers have developed a method to increase by the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed on a field-programmable gate array.
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Chaos Theory Strengthens Digital Locks
Researchers have definitively demonstrated the strength of a 128-bit digital lock for cybersecurity applications.
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UCLA Research Offers Clearest Evidence of Long-Sought Majorana Particle
A research team has uncovered evidence for the existence of the Majorana particle.
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