The State of Virtual Reality Hardware
Advances in VR hardware could finally take the technology mainstream.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
Helping NASA Return to the Moon
Charlie Blackwell-Thompson is the first woman to serve as launch director for the U.S. space agency.
ACM TechNews Top Articles of 2020
Once again, the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2020 included more than a bit of coverage on programming and programming languages.
Spotting High-Risk Behavior Online
Social media is used widely to share experiences with friends, or to join like-minded communities to discuss common interests. Yet people’s posts also could conceal clues about mental health problems or high-risk behaviors that, if recognized early enough, could help save lives. “Depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviors and some disordered eating behaviors are difficult to detect […]
“Can You Hear Me Now That I’m On 5G?”
Additional 5G spectrum is on the way…but which entity will control it?
Finally, Apps to Sink Your Teeth Into
Developers are beginning to incorporate teeth into new technologies.
Autonomous Shipping Charts Its Course
The maritime industry wades into digitalization; will it float?
Encrypted identification data on a smartcard or smartphone can deliver significant benefits while boosting security, but raise concerns about privacy and the potential for abuse.
Geometric Deep Learning Advances Data Science
Researchers are pushing beyond the limitations of convolutional neural networks using geometric deep learning techniques.
Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
In Qingtai county, a rural area of China, many K-12 students now have a non-human tutor. Sitting in front of a computer screen, an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by a Shanghai-based company called Squirrel AI is helping them get up to speed with the school curriculum by identifying gaps in their knowledge and focusing […]
The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.
The Next Best Thing to Being There
Encouraged by the pandemic, augmented and mixed realities bring new views to end-users in medicine, industry, and the military.
Consumers Increasingly Touch on Contactless Payments
The ability to pay touch-free during the Coronavirus pandemic is persuading more consumers and retailers to go contactless.
Conversational interfaces provide spoken responses to queries of business databases.
U.S. infrastructure shortcomings re-ignite public/private debate over broadband.
Technologies for the Visually Impaired
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
Giving robots soft, artificial skin would enable them to work more closely with people.
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