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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.
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...Technology Review From ACM News | December 5, 2013
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.Technology Review From ACM News | November 11, 2013
University College Dublin researchers have developed an algorithm that assesses the quality of Wikipedia pages based on the authoritativeness of the editors involved...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2013
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...Technology Review From ACM News | October 31, 2013
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2013
New software can use the graphics processors found on everyday computers to process torrents of data more quickly than is normally possible, opening up new ways...Technology Review From ACM News | October 18, 2013
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.Technology Review From ACM News | September 6, 2013
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...Technology Review From ACM News | August 29, 2013
University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...Technology Review From ACM News | August 14, 2013
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...Technology Review From ACM News | August 13, 2013
Lab-made organs could do more than just serve as ready options for patients in need: with the right blend of biology and materials science, they might even be able...Technology Review From ACM News | August 12, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
The phrase "vehicle-to-vehicle communications" might currently mean little more than a few choice words hurled through an open car window.Technology Review From ACM News | July 8, 2013
Former Enron executive Vincent Kaminski is a modest, semi-retired business school professor from Houston who recently wrote a 960-page book explaining the fundamentals...Technology Review From ACM News | July 3, 2013