Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information…
From ACM NewsDavid Geer Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 23, 2022
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
An international team of researchers completed the decoding of the final 8% of the human genome.
Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2022
To help combat discrimination in mortgage lending, a new process can remove bias from the data used to train machine learning models.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2022
A sign language glossary features more than 500 new signs covering computer science, cybersecurity, data science, and software development.
University of Edinburgh (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | April 1, 2022
High prices have pushed some toward collective ownership, but the future of virtual properties is uncertain.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | March 31, 2022
An international research team has developed a new method for determining the pace of change.
Max Planck Gesellschaft (Germany) From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2022
University of Georgia researchers unveiled a sensor system that watches power electronic converters at solar energy farms for signs of cyberattack in real time....UGA Today From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2022
A proof-of-concept "browser in the browser" exploit could phish passwords using a malicious site that does not contain suspicious domains or substitute letters....Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2022
A new magnetic tentacle robot is tiny enough to take tissue samples from the lung's smallest bronchial vessels, or to deliver cancer therapy.
University of Leeds (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | March 29, 2022
Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.
Paul Marks Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | March 29, 2022
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....ZDNet From ACM News | March 28, 2022
Researchers have developed robotized insects that could be used to search for survivors in collapsed buildings.
The Economist From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2022
A group of researchers has developed a system that allows nonexperts to generate predictions in just a few seconds.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2022
Researchers found a link between parents’ social media use and their parenting styles.
University of Central Florida From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2022
A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a framework to make quantum circuits more resilient to noise.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 25, 2022
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
Bloomberg Quint From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2022
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
Popular Science From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2022
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2022