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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.
Arkose Labs reported malicious attacks by bots and human fraud farms accounted for 73% of all Web and app traffic in the third quarter of 2023.
Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | December 7, 2023
Researchers developed a microphone array that can be added to drones, along with cameras, to help locate disaster victims.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany) From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2023
University of Arizona (UA) researchers developed a wearable monitoring system that can send health data up to 15 miles without major infrastructure.
The University of Arizona News From ACM TechNews | December 6, 2023
Researchers at China's Nanchang University have developed a visible light communication (VLC) equalizer based on a single-order circuit.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 5, 2023
A research team developed a tool that uses large language models to code new tasks for robots, which it then simulates.
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory From ACM TechNews | December 5, 2023
Researchers demonstrated a lower-power method for transmitting data at close range while maintaining high throughput using electric, rather than electromagnetic...University of Sussex (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2023
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2023
A new machine learning tool uses data from hyperspectral satellites to automatically detect methane plumes from space.
University of Oxford (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2023
Researchers found drones with automated external defibrillators arrived at the scene of a suspected cardiac arrest more than 3 minutes before ambulances in 67%...Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2023
Researchers found vulnerabilities in several laptop makers’ implementations of Windows Hello, the biometric login feature built into Windows.
SiliconANGLE From ACM TechNews | November 29, 2023
A team of researchers demonstrated that training machine learning models with synthetic images can outperform traditional training methods using real images.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2023
Northeastern University researchers said over-the-air spectroscopy could enable next-generation 6G networks to monitor climate change and air pollution.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2023
A machine learning model developed by University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) researchers can better predict cancer cure rates.
University of Texas at Arlington From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2023
Computer scientists developed a technique to manage mobile network demand by multiple Internet of Things devices using terahertz frequencies.
University of Leicester (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | November 22, 2023
Researchers say a majority of the world’s most popular websites put users and their data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards.
Georgia Tech Research From ACM TechNews | November 22, 2023
Agencies are using "traitors" to find hotspot hideouts of invasive carp that are threatening the Great Lakes.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | November 22, 2023