Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis…
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Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
Wired From ACM TechNews | April 26, 2022
Moxi and other delivery-focused assistants have become even more critical as the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed health care workers to their limits.
Wired From ACM News | April 22, 2022
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
Wired From ACM News | April 15, 2022
Scientists are monitoring Italy’s Mount Etna through fiber-optic cables, using distributed acoustic sensing to detect seismic signals that conventional sensors...Wired From ACM TechNews | April 13, 2022
The proposal would stop the biggest platforms from giving themselves an advantage over the little guys. Who's afraid of a little competition?
Wired From ACM News | April 11, 2022
The venerable (and yes, super dull) piece of officeware is getting reinvented as a tool for non-coders to automate and simplify their lives.
Wired From ACM News | April 8, 2022
Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people's faces.
Wired From ACM News | April 7, 2022
The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
Wired From ACM News | March 28, 2022
The EU targets tech giants' walled gardens with aggressive new rules, but the smaller companies the DMA is meant to help are skeptical it will work.
Wired From ACM News | March 28, 2022
Members of the hacker gang may act in Russia's interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.
Wired From ACM News | March 18, 2022
Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2022
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
The regulation of surveillance advertising used to be a fringe idea. Now it's in the State of the Union address, at least when it comes to kids.
Wired From ACM News | March 7, 2022
The company's ATAP research team is using radar to help computers respond to your movements, like turning off a TV if it senses you've dozed off.
Wired From ACM News | March 3, 2022