To manage the coronavirus epidemic, China is requiring citizens to use software on their smartphones.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2020
A study by the nonprofit research group Center for an Urban Future offers hope for New York City employees who lack the training to qualify for upcoming technology...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2020
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2020
The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.
Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2020
Private software developers have launched websites and apps to help people in South Korea track cases of coronavirus and avoid places where infected people have...Reuters From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2020
A man convicted for murder is on track to have his conviction overturned, thanks to an algorithm that reanalyzed DNA and pointed to a new suspect.
NBC News From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2020
A self-driving vehicle has completed a 230-mile drive along roads in Britain as part of a project overseen by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Leeds and...University of Leeds From ACM TechNews | February 12, 2020
Researchers have spent six years to improve the printing accuracy of three-dimensional (3D) printing software by 50% or more.
USC Viterbi News From ACM TechNews | February 11, 2020
Researchers have met the U.S. DARPA challenge to create next-generation organ-on-a-chip models.
The Harvard Gazette From ACM TechNews | January 29, 2020
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2020
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.
Paul Marks From Communications of the ACM | February 1, 2020
Germany’s Bundesliga professional football (soccer) league is making Amazon its official technology provider, providing statistics (among other things) for the...Associated Press From ACM TechNews | January 17, 2020
Online dating services are spreading personal user information in ways that may violate privacy laws in Europe and elsewhere.
From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2020
MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new text-analysis method for rapidly narrowing down reading material from billions of online options.
MIT CSAIL From ACM TechNews | January 2, 2020
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
Technology Review From ACM News | December 26, 2019
The National Football League is starting to use tracking technology that can distinguish exact distances and measure the value of a single inch, which could dramatically...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2019
The latest Top500 supercomputer ratings found the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit system topping the list with a High-Performance Linpack benchmark of 148...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2019
VisFlow is a framework that even novices can use to create highly flexible visualizations from almost any data.
New York University Tandon School of Engineering From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2019