Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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EU COVID-19 'Digital Pass' Gateway System Goes Live
The gateway system for the EU's "digital pass" for verifying COVID-19 vaccination or test status went live June 1.
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Tesla Activates In-Car Camera to Monitor Drivers Using Autopilot
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has turned the in-car camera in its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles into a monitor for when its Autopilot advanced driver assistance...
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Germany Greenlights Driverless Vehicles on Public Roads
Legislation passed by the lower house of Germany's parliament would permit driverless vehicles on that nation’s public roads by 2022.
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Monkey Equipped with Elon Musk's Neuralink Device Plays Pong with Its Brain
Elon Musk's Neuralink company released a blog post and video showing a monkey playing the game of Pong by thought, via the firm's sensor hardware and brain implant...
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$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Scientist Designing Molecules to Fight Covid-19
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation named the University of Washington's David Baker to receive $3 million for his use of computers to design complex molecules.
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Microsoft Launches Deepfake Detector Tool Ahead of U.S. Election
Microsoft says its Video Authenticator tool was created using a public dataset from Face Forensic++ and tested on the DeepFake Detection Challenge Dataset.
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Ford to Use Boston Dynamics Robots to Map Manufacturing Facilities
Ford will use two of Boston Dynamics' Spot robots to help the automaker update the original engineering plans of a transmission manufacturing plant, as a pilot...
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