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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.
Consumer wearables, which track simple metrics such as step counts and heart rates, have the potential to provide actionable health data, according to Stanford...Wired From ACM TechNews | January 19, 2017
Autonomous warriors may dominate the battlefield of tomorrow, but even those that still require human flesh will take on a robotic sheen. That shift could start...Wired From ACM News | January 17, 2017
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
Wired From ACM News | December 27, 2016
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
Wired From ACM News | December 13, 2016
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...Wired From ACM News | November 21, 2016
Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
Wired From ACM News | November 18, 2016
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.Wired From ACM News | November 11, 2016
A wireless communications network could soon enable autonomous underwater instruments to collect information, communicate, and transfer data at Internet speeds,Wired From ACM TechNews | November 9, 2016
There's a reason Tesla and its competitors use the term "autopilot" for their semi-autonomous cars: Aviation is way ahead of the auto industry when it comes to...Wired From ACM News | November 2, 2016
In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.Wired From ACM News | October 28, 2016
Last week ended with a mid-level internet catastrophe. You may have noticed that for most of Friday popular sites like Netflix, Twitter, Spotify (and yes, WIRED)...Wired From ACM News | October 27, 2016
Something funny happens when your computer or phone can’t display a font: A blank rectangular box pops up in place of the missing glyph.Wired From ACM News | October 7, 2016
Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable. Wired From ACM TechNews | September 29, 2016