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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.
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.Technology Review From ACM News | May 22, 2015
Chinese search giant Baidu says it has invented a powerful supercomputer that brings new muscle to an artificial-intelligence technique giving software more power...Technology Review From ACM News | May 15, 2015
Researchers have separated human voices from the background in a wide range of songs using some of the latest advances associated with deep neural networks. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | May 4, 2015
A group of volunteer "digital humanitarians" is using an experimental Web platform to crowdsource rumor verification following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2015
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?Technology Review From ACM News | April 29, 2015
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...Technology Review From ACM News | April 23, 2015
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...Technology Review From ACM News | April 22, 2015
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 20, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
When the FREAK encryption flaw was uncovered in early March, a team of researchers used a special tool to scan the entire Internet to identify vulnerable websites...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2015
New artificial intelligence software developed by Facebook can process text and then answer questions about it. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2015
We have self-driving cars, knowledgeable digital assistants, and software capable of putting names to faces as well as any expert.Technology Review From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Drones offer an inexpensive way to capture three-dimensional scans of buildings, terrain, and other objects. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2015
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...Technology Review From ACM News | March 16, 2015
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 27, 2015
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...Technology Review From ACM News | February 25, 2015
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.Technology Review From ACM News | February 20, 2015
The Facebook page "the same photo of Toto Cutugno every day" has caught the attention of fans of the Italian singer, as well as researchers. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2015
A newly developed flexible electronic implant hashe same ability to bend and stretch as the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2015