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From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Musicians and human rights groups have called on Spotify to estop use of a recently developed speech recognition tool it developed for suggesting songs.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2021
The EU Commission is expected to award a contract soon for a central system to verify "digital green passes" for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19...Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2021
A U.S. engineering company has designed a robot dolphin in the hope that such animatronic machines eventually could substitute for captive animals at theme parks...Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2020
Auto industry executives are speeding up plans to automate routine driving tasks and aim to make the technologies widely available within five years.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2020
The Legacy at Town Square senior living facility in Amarillo, TX, recently accelerated contact tracing by having staffers and residents wear high-tech wristbands...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 20, 2020
Apple and Google said they would not allow the use of location tracking in apps using their new contact tracing system to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus...Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 12, 2020
India's government has directed all public- and private-sector employees to use a state-supported coronavirus contact tracing app.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | May 8, 2020
Private software developers have launched websites and apps to help people in South Korea track cases of coronavirus and avoid places where infected people have...Reuters From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2020
U.S. companies installed fewer robots last year compared to 2018, according to a report from the Association for Advancing Automation .
Reuters From ACM TechNews | February 12, 2020
Major South Korean companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen job applicants, giving rise to an industry to help job-seekers beat these systems. ...Reuters From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2020
Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business...Reuters From ACM News | April 18, 2019
People.cn, the online unit of China's influential People's Daily, is boosting its numbers of human internet censors backed by artificial intelligence to help firms...Reuters From ACM Careers | March 28, 2019
The fraying World Wide Web needs to rediscover its strengths and grow into maturity, its designer Tim Berners-Lee said on Monday, marking the 30th anniversary of...Reuters From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2019
Facebook has been ordered to curb its data collection practices in Germany after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused its...Reuters From ACM News | February 7, 2019
A joint venture between Volvo Cars and Veoneer has won approval to begin hands-free testing of its software for self-driving cars on Swedish highways.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | February 5, 2019
A hotel that opened in China last month utilizes robots and a suite of other high-tech tools that drastically reduce the hotel's cost of human labor.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2019
New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China's access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as...Reuters From ACM Careers | January 8, 2019
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture...Reuters From ACM News | November 16, 2018
Dozens of employers looking to hire the next generation of tech employees descended on the University of California, Berkeley in September to meet students at an...Reuters From ACM Careers | October 15, 2018