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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.
I know there isn't one dot of light, but I frantically scan the pitch-black area surrounding me out of habit nonetheless.BBC News From ACM News | August 19, 2016
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's...BBC News From ACM News | August 18, 2016
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222...BBC News From ACM News | August 10, 2016
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.BBC News From ACM News | August 8, 2016
Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has more recently brought engineers together to tackle...BBC News From ACM News | August 2, 2016
Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).BBC News From ACM News | July 29, 2016
Google has said there was a dramatic spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news of the UK''s decision to leave the EU broke.BBC News From ACM News | June 24, 2016
Jon Johansen's program worked. The Norwegian teenager watched as it downloaded 200 megabytes of a recently released movie, The Matrix, from a DVD onto his computer...BBC News From ACM News | May 16, 2016
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...BBC News From ACM News | April 8, 2016
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Nearly 40 years ago, radio astronomer Jerry Ehman was scanning a part of the sky hoping to detect a signal from an alien civilisation.BBC News From ACM News | February 23, 2016
In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.BBC News From ACM News | February 1, 2016
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.BBC News From ACM News | December 18, 2015
Having certain robots operate using the electronic equivalent of an endocrine system could present advantages, according to researchers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 21, 2015
A virtual assistant developed at Cardiff University recently had its first public trial at the BBC's Make It Digital event. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015