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From ACM NewsEsther Shein Commissioned by CACM Staff| June 8, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
China continues to be the biggest market for industrial robots, even though the market’s growth had been slowing prior to the pandemic, due to the U.S.-China trade...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 27, 2021
Robot technology in many ways hassurpassed the vision presented in Karel Capek's play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), which introduced the word "robot"...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2021
More automakers are installing automated steering and speed control in more vehicles, using sensors, radar, and cameras to keep the car centered, control speed,...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | January 12, 2021
The need for custom options and improved power management in all applications—not just mobile, but PC and cloud—helped Arm beat Intel and win over the world's tech...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 15, 2020
A rethink of home design may be needed to accommodate remote drone delivery, which could reconfigure entire neighborhoods to establish designated drone airspace...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | December 10, 2020
The Silicon Valley pioneer long held it had to build its flagship chips in its own factories; then it hit the wall and is considering outsourcing—a milestone in...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | November 9, 2020
Technology that allows people to perform physical work remotely is proliferating across a host of occupations.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2020
The space-cloud initiative is targeting military and commercial customers and comes after Amazon announced its own space effort,
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | October 20, 2020
Researchers at Visa Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are developing new processes to try to thwart eventual quantum computing cyberattacks.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2020
Drone startups increasingly are being targeted by venture investors, due to expected growth in the sector amid technological advancements and federal approvals....The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 24, 2020
The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law—which we named for the CEO of Nvidia, the company...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 21, 2020
China this week launched the Global Initiative on Data Security, in a bid to establish international data-security standards.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 11, 2020
Startups are developing prototype autonomous trucks to haul freight while reducing transportation costs and expediting deliveries.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2020
U.K. ocean-research nonprofit Promare will launch an autonomous boat next spring to retrace the trans-Atlantic journey of the Mayflower.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2020
Amazon's cloud unit announced a commercial service allowing millions of customers to tinker with early-stage quantum computing platforms from D-Wave System, IonQ...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 27, 2020
The Trump administration has proposed a 30% increase in spending in the 2021 U.S. nondefense budget for artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information science...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 25, 2020
Robots could limit how much extra labor U.S. hotels must hire to meet sanitation demands during the global pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2020
Robots increasingly are filling some of the most common job roles in warehousing and logistics due to the explosion of e-commerce, Covid-19 stay-at-home orders,...The Wall Street Journal From ACM TechNews | August 14, 2020
Fidelity Investments was among the companies involved in testing the new service, which will allow businesses to experiment with the super-fast computing.
The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 14, 2020