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Microsoft engineers have proposed underwater server farms to help cloud providers deal with data center expansion in an environmentally friendly manner.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2017
Researchers at Lehigh University have developed new browser fingerprinting software that identifies users across Web browsers more accurately than the most sophisticated...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2017
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have detected brain growth changes linked to autism in children as young as six months old.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 16, 2017
The University of Central Florida has been developing artificial intelligence solutions to relieve crowd scientists from the task of manually counting heads.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 26, 2017
A camera system that captures a snapshot of overlapping light waves in a tiny fraction of a second could lead to new methods for imaging, allowing scientists to...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 23, 2017
University of Texas at Austin researchers are developing graphene-based health sensors that stick to a person's skin like a temporary tattoo and take measurements...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2017
These days, forecasts about the future of Moore's Law tend to look quite gloomy. But Intel's outlook—at least for the next few years—is decidedly bright.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 3, 2017
Machine-learning technologies are undergoing a transformation, appearing in products and systems that experts predict will be less expensive and more focused on...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 30, 2016
Driving your car until it breaks down on the road is never anyone's favorite way to learn the need for routine maintenance.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 28, 2016
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 22, 2016
Researchers have developed an improved version of last year's LineFORM multifunctional snake robot that introduces modularity to the system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester?
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | November 28, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new kind of robotic skin that incorporates active heating. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2016
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab are working to develop autonomous quadcopters that can fly through windows without running into them. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2016
Researchers from the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab say they have developed a more efficient way to cool humanoid robots.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2016
Devices made from thin layers of graphene, boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides can generate a single photon entirely by electricity. Built at the...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 14, 2016
Japan-based Fujitsu has developed an approach to accelerating parallel computing driven by deep-learning neural network algorithms.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2016
Google has launched a Google Translate upgrade utilizing enhanced deep-learning techniques to produce more accurate translations.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2016