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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.
If you are looking for a sure thing at this year's Oscars look no further than Gravity to win the best visual effects category.BBC News From ACM Careers | February 24, 2014
Behind a long rectangular window, in a high white room tended by ghostly figures in masks and hats, a new satellite is taking shape.BBC News From ACM Careers | February 12, 2014
Bitcoin speculators have made millions of pounds in the last few months as the value of the Internet-based virtual currency has exploded.BBC News From ACM News | January 24, 2014
The European Union is funding a project that intends to use high-tech sensors to get young people to adopt healthy lifestyles. BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2013
The Internet is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warns Sir Tim Berners-Lee. BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 25, 2013
The British Broadcasting Corporation will launch an initiative in 2015 promoting software programming in the United Kingdom. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2013
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit. BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2013
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...BBC News From ACM News | September 4, 2013
The European Union's Seventh Framework Program is funding the Strands project, which is developing software for robot brains that can be used as security guards...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2013
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.BBC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...BBC News From ACM News | August 23, 2013
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...BBC News From ACM News | August 7, 2013
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.BBC News From ACM News | August 6, 2013
We currently use atomic clocks to count the seconds, but tests on an alternative atomic timekeeper have revealed that it is more precise.BBC News From ACM News | July 19, 2013