Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time…
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Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2017
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...New Scientist From ACM News | February 13, 2017
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2017
Purdue University researchers have developed a system that uses a haptic device to let people interpret visual information using their hands.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 7, 2017
Researchers at University College London in the U.K. discovered a Twitter botnet that could be comprised of more than 350,000 accounts.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2017
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2017
Researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands programmed a robotic fly to mimic insects with different levels of wing damage, enabling them to examine...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2017
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 19, 2016
Researchers from the University of Sussex in the U.K. have replaced the millions of lasers in traditional quantum computing systems with several static magnets...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2016
Artificial intelligence systems can form flawed and stereotypical word associations by learning from biased data samples.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 8, 2016
An artificial intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future.
New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2016
Machine-learning artificial intelligences become more capable with experience, but the trade-off is a lack of understanding about the nature of their intelligence...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2016
Researchers at Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford are using deep-learning techniques to create a lip-reading system that can perform better than professional...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2016
Researchers from Germany's University of Paderborn have developed a system that can convert photons from one spread of frequencies to another, while preserving...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2016
Researchers have created a spoon with electrodes that can amplify salty, sour, or bitter flavors, and used thermal stimulation to mimic the sensation of sweetness...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2016
You're having dinner in a virtual reality game. The banquet scene in front of you looks so real that your mouth is watering.New Scientist From ACM News | November 7, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed eyeglasses with patterned frames that can obscure the identity of the wearer to facial-recognition algorithms...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 4, 2016