Keeping Government Out of Your Business
The Enforcer software can keep government surveillance from straying into illegality.
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Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
The Battle Over Autonomous Killing Machines
Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight?
Smartphones can analyze virtually every aspect of your personality, beliefs, and behaviors.
Driverless Cars Face Laser Sabotage
Attacks on the light-based radar (LiDAR) of autonomous vehicles could drive them off the road, or freeze them in their (tire) tracks.
Deep learning approaches can process images and video captured in less-then-desirable conditions, providing much clearer results.
NSF Accelerator is Open For Business
Attempting to harness the National Science Foundation’s 10 Big Ideas.
Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
Can Nanosheet Transistors Keep Moore’s Law Alive?
The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
Bluetooth device users seldom suspect they are opening themselves to man-in-the-middle hacker attacks.
Futurists Get 15 Minutes Every 4 Years
Zoltan Istvan is the latest futurist to run for U.S. president.
Russia and other countries are turning to more stringent Internet controls that threaten the free flow of information.
Prototype software will make it easier to track people, individually or in groups.
Making the Internet Civil Again
Researchers are exploring ways to improve discourse in online discussion groups and social media sites.
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping habits and preferences.
Dark Web’s Doppelgängers Aim to Dupe Antifraud Systems
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.
Top ACM TechNews articles of 2019
One of the most popular topics among the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2019 was, once again, programming and programming languages.
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
Can Antiferromagnetic Materials Replace Silicon in Future Computers?
Seeking alternatives to silicon as Moore’s Law approaches its end.
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