Communications of the ACM
Developing Unbreakable Phone Screens
Seeking to head off a shattering experience when a smartphone is dropped.
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Following U.S. Sanctions, China Decides Its Future Lies With RISC Chips
With access to x86 and ARM chips becoming increasingly difficult, Chinese companies turn their focus on to the open-source RISC-V architecture.
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Sony's Metaverse Bet: A Wearable to Record Your Moves
Sony Group Corp. has announced a system of wearable motion trackers that may be worn on a user's wrists, ankles, head, and hips to animate avatars inside metaverse...
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Contactless ECG Continuously Monitors the Heart
Researchers in China have invented a contactless electrocardiogram system that infers electrical signals through artificial intelligence and millimeter-wave radar...
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Physicists Create 'the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine'
Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
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How China's Police Used Phones, Faces to Track Protesters
China's police used an advanced surveillance system to track protesters who rallied against the government's pandemic policies this past week.
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Amazon's Quest for the 'Holy Grail' of Robotics
Automating some warehouse functions could let the giant do more with its existing workforce—or the retailer may not require all the humans it employs today.
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China Clamps Down on Internet as It Seeks to Stamp Out Covid Protests
Online regulators tell big tech companies to expand censorship of information on demonstrations and take steps to curb the virtual private networks used to bypass...
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Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
Exploring the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information.
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San Francisco Will Allow Police to Deploy Robots That Kill
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to grant city police the option to deploy potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
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Meet the 'Smartest Office Building in the World'
The 31-story JTC Summit smart office building in Singapore incorporates a network of approximately 60,000 sensors to collect data from various building systems....
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Self-Driving Robot Patrols Seoul Streets
South Korea has launched its first autonomous urban patrol robot, which patrols the streets of Seoul monitoring in search of dangerous situations.
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AI Material Learns Behaviors, Adapts to Changing Conditions
University of California, Los Angeles engineers have developed a new class of material.
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Algae-Powered Soft Devices Glow in the Dark When Squished or Stretched
The devices can be recharged with light.
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Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A 'Brainless' Robot
Naver, a South Korean Internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable.
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Quantum Computers and the Universe
Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.
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Swarm Robotics Moves Forward
Drawing inspiration from nature to enable complex behaviors.
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Experimental Wearable Pops Its Top to Send Drowning Alerts
An experimental device under development by scientists at Australia's Macquarie University is designed to alert lifeguards when its wearer is drowning.
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Chip Sandwich Pushes Boundaries of Computing, Data Transmission Efficiency
Engineers have developed an ultrafast electronic/photonic chip sandwich that generates minimal heat.
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