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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.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working with more then 130 research teams to determine how to manage drone traffic. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...Technology Review From ACM News | December 28, 2015
A recent Microsoft study details the use of Twitter bots to engage Twitter users with political activism. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2015
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2015
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...Technology Review From ACM News | December 10, 2015
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2015
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 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
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 BioPhone project will derive a person's heart and breathing rates from a smartphone's accelerometer. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...Technology Review From ACM News | November 13, 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
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
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