The drones rise all at once, 30 strong, the domes of light on their undercarriages glowing 30 different hues—like luminescent candy sprinkles against the gray,...Wired From ACM News | July 20, 2018
The robot apocalypse is nigh. Boston Dynamics' robots are doing backflips and opening doors for their friends. Oh, and these 7-foot-long robot arms can lift 500...Wired From ACM News | July 9, 2018
NASA has to start protecting planets better. The international treaty governing space—there is one—and the laws and regulations that follow it date back to the...Wired From ACM News | July 3, 2018
The 144 words of Robert Frost's seminal poem "The Road Not Taken" fit neatly onto a single printed page. Or in a 1-kilobyte data file.
Wired From ACM News | June 27, 2018
On a frigid day last January in northern Sweden, a German-led team of physicists loaded a curious machine onto an unmanned rocket.
Wired From ACM News | June 25, 2018
Seven weeks after Iran's conservative-led judiciary banned the secure communications app Telegram inside the country, Iranians are still reeling from the change...Wired From ACM News | June 19, 2018
Home routers have become the rats to hackers' bubonic plague: An easily infected, untreated and ubiquitous population in which dangerous digital attacks can spread...Wired From ACM News | May 23, 2018
Honk if you've heard this one before: Autonomous and connected cars will make driving less of a drudge by handling the stop-n-go mundanity of your commute for you...Wired From ACM News | May 18, 2018
One day last summer, Microsoft's director of artificial intelligence research, Eric Horvitz, activated the Autopilot function of his Tesla sedan.
Wired From ACM News | May 16, 2018
On Thursday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee published more than 3,500 Facebook and Instagram ads linked to the Russian propaganda group Internet...Wired From ACM News | May 14, 2018
Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...Wired From ACM News | May 2, 2018
Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat's selfie filters—hold...Wired From ACM News | April 26, 2018
On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino,...Wired From ACM News | April 25, 2018
After Uber's fatal self-driving crash last month in Tempe, Arizona, most observers had two basic question: Why did the car not see Elaine Herzberg crossing the...Wired From ACM News | April 24, 2018
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...Wired From ACM News | April 18, 2018
You know by now that Internet of Things devices like your router are often vulnerable to attack, the industry-wide lack of investment in security leaving the door...Wired From ACM News | April 10, 2018