Communications of the ACM
Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
From Communications of the ACMAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
Future online meetings could include people in disparate locations cutting a virtual birthday cake together.
From ACM TechNews
Simulated AI Creatures Demonstrate How Mind, Body Evolve, Succeed Together
Stanford University scientists engineered virtual artificial intelligences performing tasks in simulated environments to mimic the evolution of mind and body.
From ACM TechNews
Study Reveals Scale of Data-Sharing from Android Phones
Vendor-customized Android variants transmit significant amounts of data from mobile phones to the operating system developer and third parties.
From ACM News
Edge Computing: The Architecture of the Future
To fully digitize the last mile of business, you need to distribute compute power where it's needed most -- next to IoT devices that collect data from the real...
From ACM TechNews
Allstate Wants to Track Your Driving to Determine Your Car Insurance Rate
Allstate Corp. is in talks with state insurance regulators to spur an industry-wide transition to the use of telematics to set car insurance rates.
From ACM News
Zuckerberg Hits Back at Facebook Whistleblower Claims
Frances Haugen's testimony that social networking company puts profit before people just not true."
From ACM News
Facebook Whistle-Blower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate the Company
Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
From ACM News
Facebook Explains What Caused Its Widespread Outage
The social network's services, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, were offline for about six hours on Monday.
From ACM News
Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Has Searched A Name, Address, Telephone Number
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally unsealed court document shows.
From ACM News
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
From ACM News
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked...
From ACM TechNews
Tying Quantum Computing to AI Prompts Smarter Power Grid
Combining quantum computing with artificial intelligence could lead to the rapid diagnosis and identification of remedies for electrical grid problems.
From ACM TechNews
In the Face of Neurotechnology Advances, Chile Passes 'Neuro Rights' Law
Chile has become the first country to pass a "neuro rights" law that establishes the rights of individuals to personal identity, free will, and mental privacy. ...
From ACM TechNews
Smartphone Motion Sensors Could Be Used to Listen to Phone Conversations
Smartphone accelerometers could be used to eavesdrop on phone conversations, according to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers.
From ACM News
Open Wearables Initiative Highlights Standards in Open Source Algorithms
A new program of the Open Wearables Initiative is designed to identify open source algorithms that may become de facto industry standards.
From ACM TechNews
LLNL Explores Laser Beam Shaping to Improve Metal 3D Printing
Researchers found that using Bessel beams reduced the likelihood of pore formation and "keyholing" in laser powder bed fusion, a high-power laser printing process...
From ACM TechNews
Research Finds Security Flaws in Apps for Popular Smart Home Devices
Researchers discovered "critical cryptographic flaws" in the smartphone companion apps of 16 popular smart home devices.
From ACM News
The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over
Of the 37 new emojis approved this year, one stood out as a visual proxy for our collective malaise.
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Discover Vulnerability in Widely-Used Method for Securing Phone Data
Researchers demonstrated how an attack on low-end Android phones targetted a standard encryption process.
From ACM TechNews