An Italian court determined that companies can be held liable even if an algorithm unintentionally discriminates against a protected group.
Motherboard From ACM News | January 7, 2021
Hackers can exploit the Telegram messenger application employed in Android devices and iPhones to pinpoint users' precise locations.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2021
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research are using artificial intelligence and robots to design an organic redox-flow...Forbes From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2021
Computer simulation could help identify symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, according to Ohio State University (OSU) researchers.
...Ohio State News From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2021
A newly discovered malware strain collects an infected user's Basic Service Set Identifier, in order to ascertain the location of the user and their Wi-Fi access...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 7, 2021
Information technology (IT) executives say the pandemic has expanded their clout in corporate boardrooms and front-office decision-making.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a sustained, long-distance teleportation of qubits made of photons with fidelity greater than 90%, paving the way...University of Chicago News From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
Niels Teusink, a researcher at Netherlands-based security firm Eye Control, found that hackers are attempting to exploit a backdoor built into several Zyxel device...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
An international team of more than 170 experts evaluated the opportunities and challenges facing the use of robotic technology for urban nature and green space....University of Leeds (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
Canadian research company MontrealAI convened leading computer scientists in December to debate moving artificial intelligence (AI) forward in the year ahead.
VentureBeat From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden's transition team announced that open source software developer David Recordon will serve as the White House Director of Technology.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2021
Be it access to world standard courses, platforms, libraries, frameworks, hardware, this was the decade when AI went mainstream.
Analytics India From ACM News | January 6, 2021
More than a decade of research advanced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photo Source played a role in the development of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Nextgov From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2021
Chief information officers last year had to reprioritize corporate demands and establish new boundaries to prevent team burnout due to remote work and the ramp-up...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2021
While tech workers appear to be fleeing Silicon Valley in an exodus sparked by the pandemic, Seattle—home to tech giants Microsoft and Amazon—has not seen the same...GeekWire From ACM TechNews | January 5, 2021
Encrypted identification data on a smartcard or smartphone can deliver significant benefits while boosting security, but raise concerns about privacy and the potential...Samuel Greengard Commissioned by CACM Staff From ACM News | January 5, 2021
Software company Burning Glass Technologies projected quantum computing and connected technologies will be among the 10 most "disruptive" information technology...ZDNet From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2021
What do we need to push AI to the next level? More data and larger neural networks? New deep learning algorithms? Approaches other than deep learning?
VentureBeat From ACM News | January 4, 2021