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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress this week passed the Chips and Science Act, earmarking $280 billion to strengthen U.S. innovation and technology hubs, including...GeekWire From ACM TechNews | July 29, 2022
Opens the door to using commercially available health monitors to detect other infectious diseases.
McMaster University (Canada) From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2022
This year's World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar will employ autonomous radar-guided interceptor drones for stadium security.
BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2022
Agricultural engineers created a prototype end-effector that can remove unwanted apples from trees as a first step toward robotic, green-fruit thinning.
PennState News From ACM TechNews | July 26, 2022
The U.K. government has approved plans for Skyway, a 165-mile drone superhighway that will connect towns across England and be used to survey infrastructure such...New Atlas From ACM TechNews | July 21, 2022
A brain-computer interface startup has implanted a wire-electrode combination in the brain of a U.S. patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2022
Cornell University researchers have developed a wearable earphone device that can reconstruct the wearer's face using sonar.
Cornell University Chronicle From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2022
Researchers taught a four-legged, dog-sized robot to walk in one hour with the help of a Bayesian optimization algorithm.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany) From ACM TechNews | July 20, 2022
Political wrangling slows progress on what began as bipartisan effort to restore America's semiconductor production prowess.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | July 19, 2022
Three computer scientists have solved the NLTS conjecture, proving that systems of entangled particles can remain difficult to analyze even away from extremes. ...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | July 19, 2022
Researchers have developed a glove inspired by an octopus for securely gripping objects underwater.
Virginia Tech News From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2022
The "Retbleed" flaw targets older AMD and Intel central processing units as a channel for Spectre-based speculative-execution attacks.
The Hacker News From ACM TechNews | July 18, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope's data-collecting operations present a number of challenges, including dependence on a reliable communications subsystem.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2022