More than half of African countries are developing some form of biometric or digital national identification (ID).
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2020
Researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that analyzes students' emotions to measure their engagement level in a class.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 17, 2020
A team of researchers has developed a supercomputer simulation that successfully models a key part of a process that produces solar flares.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 25, 2019
A new method of tracking unfamiliar drones leverages consumer smartphones to detect the Wi-Fi signals of nearby drones.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2019
Researchers at Marist College and IBM have identified a simple but effective way to hack a PTP network, altering the timing of slave clocks by 2,149.5 minutes after...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 24, 2019
Researchers at Nanjing University in China have developed a quantum drone to serve as an airborne node in a future quantum network.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2019
Researchers have developed transmitting and receiving equipment that could squeeze 26.2 terabits per second through the MAREA cable.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 15, 2019
A few days before Christmas, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that devotes more than US $1.2 billion to a national effort dedicated to quantum...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 11, 2019
What's the best type of device from which to build a neural network? Of course, it should be fast, small, consume little power, have the ability to reliably store...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 17, 2018
DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Alphabet, has created a system that can quickly master any game in the class that includes chess, Go, and Shogi, and do...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 7, 2018
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 31, 2018
Would-be travelers of the galaxy, rejoice: The Chinese tech giant Baidu has invented a translation system that brings us one step closer to a software Babel fish...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 25, 2018
In the summer of 2017, a group of young political activists in the United Kingdom figured out how to use the popular dating app Tinder to attract new supporters...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 18, 2018
In order to achieve the edge computing that people talk about in a host of applications including 5G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT), you need to pack...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 18, 2018
This year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turned 60. To celebrate, DARPA held a conference in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 27, 2018
A new system allows a drone to fly through very small and completely unknown gaps using a single camera and onboard processing.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 20, 2018
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for warfighters who have returned...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 13, 2018
Researchers are testing the capabilities of 5G network technologies to transmit information to and from vehicles while they are on the road, using a robotic car...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2018
Researchers in Singapore used two mobile robots operating concurrently to three-dimensionally-print a single piece of concrete structure.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 5, 2018