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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.
Cars are becoming smarter than ever, with global positioning systems, Internet connections, data recorders and high-definition cameras.The New York Times From ACM News | January 13, 2014
A new class of nanomaterials that can self-assemble might enable the creation of nearly molecule-scale circuits. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2014
Not long after Gordon E. Moore proposed in 1965 that the number of transistors that could be etched on a silicon chip would continue to double approximately every...The New York Times From ACM News | January 13, 2014
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.The New York Times From ACM News | December 30, 2013
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.The New York Times From ACM News | December 23, 2013
The Schaft robot developed by Japanese researchers dominated the U.S. Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge 2013 Trials. The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 23, 2013
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...The New York Times From ACM News | December 23, 2013
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...The New York Times From ACM News | December 16, 2013
China's latest display of ambition in space involves sending a Jade Rabbit roaming across the Bay of Rainbows.The New York Times From ACM News | December 2, 2013
NASA's next mission to Mars aims to answer one question: What happened to the air that once made the surface habitable?The New York Times From ACM News | November 15, 2013
IBM announced that its Watson supercomputer will be available as a cloud service to third-party users at a significantly lower cost than in the past, marking the...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2013