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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
The fragile apparition endured only long enough to say: "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" before flickering out.
The Guardian From ACM News | May 22, 2018
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...The Guardian From ACM News | March 5, 2018
The speculation around cryptocurrencies has obscured the fact that blockchain, the decentralised, open-source ledger that drives bitcoin, could radically change...The Guardian From ACM News | January 30, 2018
The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a headquarters in The Hague to monitor developments in artificial intelligence...The Guardian From ACM News | September 27, 2017
The European parliament has urged the drafting of a set of regulations to govern the use and creation of robots and artificial intelligence, including a form of...The Guardian From ACM News | January 13, 2017
The McDonald's on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York City doesn/t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain's other locations...The Guardian From ACM News | January 11, 2017
There may never be enough hours in the day to get everything done, but at least the forces of nature are conspiring to help out.
The Guardian From ACM News | December 8, 2016
The newborn universe may have glowed with light beams moving much faster than they do today, according to a theory that overturns Einstein's century-old claim that...The Guardian From ACM News | November 30, 2016
Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist who has been working at tech company Intel for 18 years, where she is currently head of sensing and insights.
The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 29, 2016
A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating...The Guardian From ACM News | August 26, 2016
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after ...The Guardian From ACM News | August 2, 2016
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.The Guardian From ACM News | July 8, 2016
If the founders of a new face recognition app get their way, anonymity in public could soon be a thing of the past.The Guardian From ACM News | May 25, 2016
Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone...The Guardian From ACM News | April 18, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM News | January 27, 2016
In outback Western Australia, around 350k northeast of the small town of Geraldton, lies an area of land about the size of the Netherlands, but with only 100 humans...The Guardian From ACM News | July 17, 2015
Cerro Armazones is a crumbling dome of rock that dominates the parched peaks of the Chilean Coast Range north of Santiago.The Guardian From ACM News | April 21, 2014
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...The Guardian From ACM News | April 17, 2014