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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages … From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Can the Government Ban Encryption?
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...
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Are These the Five Craziest Space Missions?
The landing of the Philae Lander—on a comet travelling at 135,000km/h (84,000mph)—has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in space exploration.
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says he worries about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Can Internet Companies Monitor Terrorists?
Facebook is saying little apart from the fact that "we do not allow terrorist content on the site and take steps to prevent people from using our service for these...
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Museum Switches on Historic Computer
A project to recreate one of Britain's pioneering computers has reached a key milestone.
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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'more Diverse' Emoji Faces Planned
Emoji face icons could soon reflect greater racial diversity.
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Dark Net Experts Trade Theories on 'de-Cloaking' After Raids
The hidden web community has started trying to find out how services and identities were compromised after police raids led to 17 arrests.
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Microsoft Headset to Help Blind People Navigate Cities
Microsoft is collaborating with a British charity to develop a headset that could help the blind and the visually impaired navigate urban locations.
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The Rise of Human-Like Robots, Cars and Drones
Ginger is only a couple of feet tall, but she soon commands attention as she takes to the stage. "I would like to say it's a pleasure to be here," she tells the...
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Met Office to Build Supercomputer
The British government will spend 97 million British pounds on a new supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modeling.
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Met Office to Build £97m Supercomputer
The facility will work 13 times faster than the current system, enabling detailed, UK-wide forecast models with a resolution of 1.5km to be run every single hour...
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How Movie-Makers Read Your Mind
Why is there such interest in finding new ways to gauge audience reactions?
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.k. Child Coders Triumph in European Contest
Microsoft recently brought together young programmers from across Europe for a gaming competition based on Kodu, the company's visual programming language.
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How the World Came to Be Run By Computer Code
From the scythe to the steam engine, we've always used technology to control the world around us.
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Ebola: Can Big Data Analytics Help Contain Its Spread?
The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has now claimed more than 4,000 lives.
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Nobel Prize: How English Beat German as Language of Science
Permafrost, oxygen, hydrogen; it all looks like science to me.
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How Scammers Trick Your Mind
None of us likes being scammed, and David Modic is no different.
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Shellshock: 'deadly Serious' New Vulnerability Found
A "deadly serious" bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered.
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