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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...New Scientist From ACM News | June 26, 2013
Bats, dolphins, and even some blind people use echoes to create a mental 3D map of their environment and where they are in it. A smartphone's chirp could soon let...New Scientist From ACM News | June 18, 2013
"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever...New Scientist From ACM News | May 16, 2013
Wearable displays post information in users' field of view, but the text will need to stand out from the constantly changing background. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 24, 2013
NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock—much to everyone's surprise.New Scientist From ACM News | March 20, 2013
University College London researchers have created what they describe as a self-repairing computer that could keep mission-critical systems working. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 14, 2013
When Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor first exploded onto the gaming scene in 2010, it wasn't long before people started getting excited about what it might make...New Scientist From ACM News | January 22, 2013
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).New Scientist From ACM News | January 9, 2013
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2012
Computer chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain...New Scientist From ACM News | November 26, 2012
When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how it works because we lack the tools and intelligence to measure...New Scientist From ACM News | November 16, 2012
A robot that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them could be the best robotic table-tennis challenger the world has seen.New Scientist From ACM News | November 2, 2012
Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...New Scientist From ACM News | October 25, 2012
One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing technology—the ability to make replacements or parts for household objects like toys, utensils and gadgets—may be denied...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2012
Alert to a sudden threat, you race down a virtual corridor of servers, hot on the tail of malicious software.New Scientist From ACM News | October 4, 2012