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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.
Inside your smartphone, a battle is raging. As tiny chips with big ambitions fight for processing power, is there anything the phones of the future will not be...BBC News From ACM News | September 23, 2010
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.BBC News From ACM News | August 20, 2010
A novel use of encryption by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks could "challenge the legal system for years to come," according to an influential observer of the...BBC News From ACM News | August 19, 2010
"To Google" has become a universally understood verb, and many countries are developing their own Internet slang. But is the Web changing language, and is everyone...BBC News From ACM News | August 18, 2010
Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some...BBC News From ACM News | August 17, 2010
The private browsing modes on modern browsers leak information about where people have visited, suggests a study.BBC News From ACM News | August 6, 2010
A report based on analysis of huge amounts of net traffic has revealed the state of the Internet around the globe.BBC News From ACM News | July 28, 2010
More than a billion mobile phone connections have been added to the global tally in just 18 months, according to Wireless Intelligence.BBC News From ACM News | July 9, 2010
Of all the senses, touch as been somewhat neglected as a human means of interacting with machines. Labs around the world are now racing to close the gap while...BBC News From ACM News | July 6, 2010
Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses...BBC News From ACM News | May 6, 2010
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.BBC News From ACM News | May 5, 2010
Mark Zuckerberg will soon hit the ripe old age of 26. And despite his youth, he clearly possesses no fear as he sets his company's sights on trying to wrest control...BBC News From ACM News | April 23, 2010
From the moment people are born, they learn to make associations and to understand words depending on the context of a sentence.
This learning continues throughout...BBC News From ACM News | April 13, 2010
With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...BBC News From ACM News | April 6, 2010