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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed cyborg cockroaches to serve as search-and-rescue scouts during disasters. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 27, 2015
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision on marriage equality, a short YouTube video made the rounds online.New Scientist From ACM News | July 27, 2015
Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up. But what if your face is hidden from view?New Scientist From ACM News | June 23, 2015
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"New Scientist From ACM News | June 22, 2015
London artist James Bridle has created a tool that can determine how much time users spend on different countries' websites and then compute their algorithmic citizenship...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2015
When a newly renovated apartment in San Francisco went on the market earlier this year for roughly $8.5 million, its asking price included a somewhat unexpected...New Scientist From ACM News | June 9, 2015
A multi-university team of researchers has developed a system that can power electrical devices with just a wireless router's signal.New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 3, 2015
Researchers placed an implant in the posterior parietal cortex of a man paralyzed from the neck down, who then controlled a robotic arm with his mind. New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 27, 2015
Watch your language. Words mean different things to different people—so the brainwaves they provoke could be a way to identify you.New Scientist From ACM News | May 21, 2015
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...New Scientist From ACM News | May 7, 2015
Quantum computers should theoretically outpace ordinary ones, but attempts to build a speedy quantum machine have so far come up short. Now an approach based on...New Scientist From ACM News | April 20, 2015
In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.New Scientist From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.New Scientist From ACM News | April 13, 2015
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.New Scientist From ACM Careers | April 1, 2015
Philae, the European Space Agency probe that landed on and then bounced across the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November, has provided researchers...New Scientist From ACM News | March 18, 2015