A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is one of several dozen teams enlisted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to adapt their annual...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2020
Researchers at Google have developed a four-legged robot that learned to walk completely on its own in just a few hours.
MIT Technology Review From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2020
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
Technology Review From ACM News | December 26, 2019
In the next two weeks, Russia is planning to attempt something no other country has tried before. It's going to test whether it can disconnect from the rest of...Technology Review From ACM News | March 22, 2019
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
Technology Review From ACM News | February 8, 2019
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
Apple says the inclusion of its Face ID technology in the upcoming iPhone X will make smartphone unlocking, payment, and other operations possible via facial recognition...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2017
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
Technology Review From ACM News | August 10, 2017
New York City wants to make Wi-Fi available to anyone who walks its streets. But Gotham is finding out the hard way that free and open Internet access is ripe for...Technology Review From ACM News | September 15, 2016
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to help the FBI get into a mass murderer's iPhone last winter, he was hailed for his boldness in fighting the government on ...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 12, 2016
The blockish and slightly dorky computer game Minecraft may turn out to be a great place for humans and AI to learn how to work together.Technology Review From ACM News | July 21, 2016
In an effort to make eye tracking cheap, compact, and accurate enough to be included in smartphones, a group of researchers is crowdsourcing the collection of gaze...Technology Review From ACM News | July 7, 2016
Mobile phones have revolutionized the way scientists study human behavior, allowing them to watch people on a scale that has never been previously imagined.Technology Review From ACM News | June 6, 2016
When social-media users upload photographs and caption them, they don't just label their contents. They tell a story, which gives the photos context and additional...Technology Review From ACM News | April 27, 2016
Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking...Technology Review From ACM News | April 1, 2016
U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...Technology Review From ACM News | March 7, 2016
Rather than painstakingly typing in passwords on your smartphone, you may eventually just swipe a shape or other pattern on its display to authenticate yourself...Technology Review From ACM News | March 4, 2016