Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time…
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At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, chipmaker Intel demoed its latest big idea: "perceptual computing."Technology Review From ACM News | January 28, 2013
University of Toronto researchers have developed statistical computer techniques for dating historical documents. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 22, 2013
The next time you go shopping for a smartphone, you might see some unfamiliar software on the screens lining store shelves.Technology Review From ACM News | January 22, 2013
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems has simulated how flight delays spread across the U.S. airport network like wildfires. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 10, 2013
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.Technology Review From ACM News | January 8, 2013
If China's ultimate aim in the sphere of technology is to become completely self-sufficient, it is well on the way to achieving this ambitious goal.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2012
Samsung Electronics is a company at the top of its game, having become the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer in the last year.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2012
As the head of Windows product development at Microsoft, Julie Larson-Green is responsible for a piece of software used by some 1.3 billion people worldwide.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2012
A trip to any big electronics store this fall will tell you that computer makers from Samsung to Microsoft think laptop and desktop computers need touch screens...Technology Review From ACM News | December 5, 2012
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, abruptly left the company on November 12, shortly after introducing the latest version of the company's...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 26, 2012
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.Technology Review From ACM News | November 19, 2012
Cloud computing teaches people not to worry about physical equipment for hosting data and running software.Technology Review From ACM News | November 16, 2012
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 9, 2012
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents...Technology Review From ACM News | November 5, 2012
Powering cellular base stations around the world will cost $36 billion this year—chewing through nearly 1 percent of all global electricity production. Much of...Technology Review From ACM News | November 4, 2012
Next Tuesday's presidential election will likely be extremely close, magnifying the potential impact of vote-counting errors.Technology Review From ACM News | November 2, 2012
Academic researchers have developed coded Transmission Control Protocol, a method for improving wireless bandwidth by one order of magnitude that involves using...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 24, 2012
While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working...Technology Review From ACM News | October 23, 2012