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From ACM NewsSandrine Ceurstemont Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 1, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The researchers behind a quantum computer that encodes data in pulses of light have connected it to the Internet and made it available for public use.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2022
A team of Austrian and German scientists has constructed a 16-quantum bit computer that runs error-free calculations.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2022
Researchers have programmed a chemical computer to solve specific problems, following earlier research on encoding data into the system.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2022
New York University researchers have built a small surveillance drone able to extend its battery life by attaching itself to a wall and powering down its rotors...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2022
A circuit board's power consumption can reveal malicious tampering designed to facilitate Trojan attacks to steal sensitive data or crash a device when triggered...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 20, 2022
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed an approach that enables a neural network to run a code like a standard computer.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2022
Researchers at driverless car company Waymo and Google Research used self-driving vehicles to create a virtual model of San Francisco.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2022
Researchers trained an algorithm to remove facial tattoos from images, in order to improve facial recognition systems.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2022
Artificial intelligence can eliminate errors from a group of quantum bits, thanks to researchers at Germany's RWTH Aachen University.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2022
A multinational team determined that methane "ultra-emitter" sites account for about a tenth of the oil and gas industry's global methane emissions.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2022
Generating truly random numbers for cryptographic algorithms could become possible through Nisa Bostanci and colleagues at Turkey's TOBB University of Economics...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2022
Researchers at South Korea's Ajou University have built a highly dexterous robotic hand that can handle eggs gently, pour drinks, and crush aluminum cans.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2021
Artificial intelligence trained on computer-generated images of analog clocks captured at different angles learned to read the time.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2021
Robots can navigate and avoid collisions using the sounds they produce through echolocation as bats do.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2021
Researchers found that shifting large computing jobs to nights or weekends can lower carbon emissions from datacenters by as much as a third.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2021
A quantum computer completed a calculation in 4.2 hours that would have taken a classical system thousands of years.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 23, 2021
The one-legged TTI Hopper robot can stand, hop, and maintain balance on sloping or unsteady surfaces.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 10, 2021
Researchers have developed a snake-like robot that could facilitate exploration of the interior of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 18, 2021
Some observers say the dream of fully autonomous vehicles is a mirage: creating robot vehicles able to tackle any kind of road or traffic situation is just too...New Scientist From ACM News | July 29, 2021
Said Peter Knight at Imperial College London, "Without this advance, you will still have uncertainty about whether the roadmap towards fault tolerance was feasible...New Scientist From ACM News | July 15, 2021