Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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
"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was...BBC News From ACM News | July 19, 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
Imagine walking on Mars and being able to examine rock formations from all angles, or collaborating on the same 3D hologram design with someone thousands of miles...BBC News From ACM News | February 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
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.BBC News From ACM News | February 19, 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
Although it's already been used by industry, the military and some emergency services, it was expensive and therefore had a limited market.BBC News From ACM News | December 14, 2015
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers have developed a tiny sensor powered by the radio waves it uses to communicate information.BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 11, 2015
A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.BBC News From ACM News | December 2, 2015