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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a computer game to treat children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2022
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
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.BBC News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
French coder Olivier Poudade has created BootChess, which is only 487 bytes in size, and the code can run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers. BBC News From ACM TechNews | January 30, 2015
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.BBC News From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2015
It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s, computer scientist Scott Fahlman realised his words were failing him.BBC News From ACM News | November 26, 2014
You may not realise it, but every time you open up your laptop or switch on your phone, you are at the heart of one of the greatest battles now taking place in...BBC News From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2014
The Hanwha Eagles Korean baseball team has equipped its stadium with robots that fans who are unable to attend the games can control over the Internet. BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2014
Pixar plans to make a non-commercial version of RenderMan freely available to students, institutions, researchers, developers, and for personal use. BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2014