Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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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 news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2016
In 2012, IBM Watson went to medical school. So said The New York Times, announcing that the tech giant’s artificially intelligent question-and-answer machine had...Wired From ACM News | February 16, 2016
It was the talk most anticipated at this year's inaugural Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers were eager to...Wired From ACM News | January 29, 2016
In 1996, IBM'S Deep Blue became the first supercomputer to defeat a chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov, in a game.Wired From ACM News | January 21, 2016
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.Wired From ACM News | January 15, 2016
The NFL may be the most popular and profitable major sport in America, but until recently, it's lagged behind other leagues in sophisticated use of data analysis...Wired From ACM News | January 14, 2016
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...Wired From ACM News | January 8, 2016
There was once a time when people distinguished between cyberspace, the digital world of computers and hackers, and the flesh-and-blood reality known as meatspace...Wired From ACM News | December 29, 2015
Drones are the hallmark of tech-y modern warfare, but weapons piloted from afar have been around for more than a century.
Wired From ACM News | December 16, 2015
At a NASA lab in Silicon Valley, Google is testing a quantum computer—a machine based on the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of things...Wired From ACM News | December 11, 2015
Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers...Wired From ACM News | December 9, 2015
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, andBreakout. And they're getting pretty good.
Wired From ACM News | December 2, 2015
When you think about the Internet of Things, you probably think of smart refrigerators and smart electric meters, not smart pacemakers, insulin pumps, and x-ray...Wired From ACM News | November 25, 2015
Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone, and it was a welcomed thing.Wired From ACM News | November 24, 2015