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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Two decades after its discovery, a rare handwritten journal belonging to computing pioneer Alan Turing will be auctioned off this spring in San Francisco. CNet From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2015
Spring is seen as a time of renewal. Flowers bloom. Days get longer. New life emerges. Something similar could happen on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the object...CNET From ACM News | February 2, 2015
Before you blast off to the moon in search of $30 million offered as part of the Google Lunar XPrize—or the juicy $20 million grand prize for being the first to...CNET From ACM Careers | January 23, 2015
Floor tiles that generate electricity when people walk on them. Streetlamps that transmit data to people passing beneath them.CNET From ACM News | January 20, 2015
The Future of Life Institute wants humanity to tread lightly while on the road to really smart, and not so cuddly, robots.CNET From ACM News | January 12, 2015
Technology shown by Intel at the Consumer Electronics Show is largely oriented around a depth-sensing camera that could transform human-computer interaction.CNet From ACM TechNews | January 9, 2015
Physical access to a fingerprint may not be required to exploit fingerprint readers, according to a European hacker.CNet From ACM TechNews | January 6, 2015
It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.CNET From ACM News | December 29, 2014
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...CNET From ACM News | December 18, 2014
When it comes to life, biologists have long hypothesised that its origins—on Earth, at least—were in thermal vents on the ocean floor, following a period of ...CNET From ACM News | December 2, 2014
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.CNET From ACM Opinion | December 1, 2014
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.CNET From ACM News | November 14, 2014
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...CNET From ACM News | November 5, 2014
Eau de Comet isn't, we now know, the most seductive scent floating around in our galaxy. The Rosetta probe's Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis...CNET From ACM News | October 27, 2014
Intel's Edison chip has been launched in a rocket, floated in a weather balloon, fitted into a futuristic light-emitting dress and used to power a dancing robot...CNET From ACM Opinion | October 6, 2014