The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
Wired From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2022
Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
Wired From ACM News | April 22, 2022
Scientists are monitoring Italy’s Mount Etna through fiber-optic cables, using distributed acoustic sensing to detect seismic signals that conventional sensors...Wired From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2022
For years, the country has been trying to create its own sovereign Internet—a goal given new impetus by the backlash to its invasion of Ukraine.
Wired From ACM News | April 4, 2022
Brain-computer interfaces are getting better all the time—and they're about to land us in a philosophical quagmire.
Wired From ACM News | January 11, 2022
Even Amazon's new AI-powered machines aren't nearly capable enough to handle the most important fulfillment tasks.
Wired From ACM News | November 29, 2021
The vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the CPU to bypass the security measures protecting some of its most sensitive data.
Wired From ACM News | November 17, 2021
Researchers developed an army of more than 4,000 simulated doglike robots and used them to train an algorithm to control a real-world robot's legs.
Wired From ACM TechNews | October 15, 2021
Fires spread with a complexity that scientists can pick apart little by little, thanks to lasers, sensors, and some of the most powerful computers.
Wired From ACM News | September 30, 2021
Machines can print textiles, cut fabric, and fold clothes, but it's hard to train them to sew as fast and precisely as humans.
Wired From ACM News | September 28, 2021
ASML's next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for...Wired From ACM News | August 31, 2021
The conservation group Island Conservation plans to use drones to try to eliminate rats on Tetiaroa atoll and two other islands in French Polynesia, beginning in...Wired From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2021
The Pentagon says a ban on AI weapons isn't necessary, But missiles, guns and drones that think for themselves already kill people in combat, and have been for...Wired From ACM News | July 12, 2021
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is often misunderstood. Here's what it is, and how those with OCD can use technology to help navigate uncertainty.
Wired From ACM News | June 3, 2021
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways.
Wired From ACM News | April 29, 2021