At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, eSports players will have the opportunity to medal for the first time.
The event, which begins Sept. 23, will see eSports...France 24 From ACM TechNews | September 19, 2023
Mathematicians have identified 12,392 new stable orbital arrangements for three objects as allowed by Isaac Newton's laws of motion, also known as the three-body...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2023
Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | September 7, 2023
Engineers at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee developed a potentially mass-producible $1 sensor that can detect contaminants...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 1, 2023
The new HoloBoard system can be paired with Microsoft's HoloLens 2 augmented reality device to help non-speaking autistic individuals improve their motor skills...University of Calgary (Canada) From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2023
The 2022 State of Rust Survey published earlier this month found more developers using the programming language than ever before.
InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2023
Despite receiving recent approval to expand their robotaxi services in San Francisco, Waymo and Cruise continue to face backlash over traffic and safety concerns...Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2023
A growing number of scientific researchers are using virtual reality (VR) technology in the lab, often to more easily collaborate with distant colleagues, or simply...Nature From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2023
Their development Scalene, an open-source tool for dramatically speeding up the programming language Python, circumvents issues limiting computer processing speed...University of Massachusetts Amherst News From ACM News | August 29, 2023
A new framework allows quadruped robots to perform tasks that get progressively more complex without having to relearn motions.
Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2023
U.S. pharmacy chain CVS is among those interested in a pill-tracking device created by Virginia-based high school student Archishma Marrapu.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2023
A post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm developed by researchers at Google and Switzerland's ETH Zurich enables quantum-resistant encryption for FIDO2 security...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2023
Scientists evaluated eight artificial intelligence-based pedestrian detectors used in driverless car research, and found they may have difficulty detecting children...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 23, 2023
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.
Chris Edwards From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2023
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
Esther Shein From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2023