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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Facial recognition tech has been around for decades, but it has been progressing in leaps and bounds in recent years due to advances in computing vision and artificial...BBC News From ACM News | July 17, 2018
Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world.
BBC News From ACM News | June 5, 2018
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
BBC News From ACM News | April 25, 2018
In Ridley Scott's seminal blockbuster Blade Runner, humanity has harnessed bio-engineering to create a race of replicants that look, act and sound human—but are...BBC News From ACM News | April 19, 2018
Sometimes, being part of a large crowd can be worse than uncomfortable: it can turn lethal. Deadly crowd crushes that occurred in 2017 include incidents in an Angolan...BBC News From ACM News | March 27, 2018
Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the development of a programmable quantum processor made with silicon.
BBC News From ACM News | February 16, 2018
Bill Kochevar's life was changed, seemingly irrevocably, when he was paralysed from the shoulders down following a cycling accident nearly a decade ago.
BBC News From ACM News | February 5, 2018
In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur.
BBC News From ACM News | January 24, 2018
Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...BBC News From ACM News | January 3, 2018
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to which they want to talk about it.
BBC News From ACM News | December 6, 2017
You can trace the extent of our reliance on air travel to many inventions. The jet engine, perhaps, or the aeroplane itself. But sometimes inventions need other...BBC News From ACM News | October 12, 2017
From his desk at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, space debris analyst Tim Flohrer keeps track of the 23,000 or so catalogued objects...BBC News From ACM News | October 10, 2017
For some, the spread of artificial intelligence and robotics poses a threat to our privacy, our jobs – even our safety, as more and more tasks are handed over to...BBC News From ACM News | September 15, 2017
In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they...BBC News From ACM News | August 2, 2017
Chris McKay has fallen out of love with Mars. The red, dusty, corroded world no longer holds the allure it once did.
BBC News From ACM News | July 17, 2017
Take a look at the photograph below; it's just an ordinary picture of two people outside a building, right? One of them appears to be handing something to the other...BBC News From ACM News | June 30, 2017