Researchers say Uber and Lyft's automated management systems establish new dynamics between workers and their bosses that should garner regulatory attention.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 4, 2015
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2015
Tracking balls in some sports--such as basketball, volleyball, and soccer--is significantly harder for machine-vision algorithms than it is in other sports. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2015
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a machine-vision algorithm that can objectively analyze children's drawings. ...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2015
The BioPhone project will derive a person's heart and breathing rates from a smartphone's accelerometer. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
The ability of robots to carry out tasks and move about their environment is increasingly impressive, but they still face major challenges. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 13, 2015
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says advances in machine learning would soon affect every product and service the company provides.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2015
China has experienced a tremendous amount of urban growth in the last 30 years, yet many of the newly built residential areas remain vacant. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015
Symantec researchers recently found requiring numbers and uppercase characters in passwords does not do much to make them stronger. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2015
The behavior and interplay of two types of neurons in the brain helps give humans and other animals an uncanny ability to navigate by building a mental map of their...Technology Review From ACM News | October 20, 2015
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2015