A project to data-mine mobile phone records found people invest more in relationships where there exists a risk of the relationship weakening. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | August 10, 2016
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...Technology Review From ACM News | August 8, 2016
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.Technology Review From ACM News | August 5, 2016
Machine vision algorithms have a weakness that enables them to be deceived by images modified in ways humans could easily detect.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 25, 2016
Facebook Connectivity Lab researchers have developed an optical technology to help laser beams deliver fast Internet access to remote areas. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2016
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.Technology Review From ACM News | July 21, 2016
The results of the Winograd Schema Challenge revealed much more work needs to be done to make computers truly intelligent. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2016
A complex in Prineville, OR, that houses Facebook servers recently was expanded with high-powered servers designed to accelerate research into machine learning....Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2016
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...Technology Review From ACM News | July 15, 2016
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...Technology Review From ACM News | July 11, 2016
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 8, 2016
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2016
Researchers in China say they have demonstrated a form of device-independent quantum cryptography, sending a key over a distance of more than 100 kilometers at...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 30, 2016
The FBI has access to nearly 412 million photos in its facial recognition system—perhaps including the one on your driver's license.Technology Review From ACM News | June 28, 2016
A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the National Institutes of Health.Technology Review From ACM News | June 21, 2016
Researchers at Denmark's Radboud University have trained a deep convolutional neural network to convert hand-drawn sketches of faces into photorealistic portraits...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2016
Entanglement is the strange phenomenon in which quantum particles become so deeply linked that they share the same existence.Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016