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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.
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in a software development kit affecting more than 83 million smart devices.
Wired From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2021
Money is pouring into autonomous trucking startups, just as many are souring on the short-term prospects for self-driving cars.
Wired From ACM News | July 26, 2021
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is often misunderstood. Here's what it is, and how those with OCD can use technology to help navigate uncertainty.
Wired From ACM News | June 3, 2021
Disease surveillance schemes to catch the next rising virus already exist—they're just not communicating with each other.
Wired From ACM News | June 3, 2021
Microsoft reveals plans to bring GPT-3, best known for generating text, to programming. "The code writes itself," CEO Satya Nadella says.
Wired From ACM News | May 27, 2021
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands say they have induced the emission of light from silicon.
Wired From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2020
City leaders, academic researchers, and the U.S. Department of Transportation are working to predict car crashes and reduce emergency response times using data...Wired From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2019
Starting in July, customers in any Nike retail store in the U.S. can have their feet scanned to learn exactly what shoe size they need, in any style Nike makes....Wired From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2019
A self-taught Belgian programmer has solved a puzzle required to open a 1999 time capsule at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Wired From ACM TechNews | May 7, 2019
Call it the Great Convergence of Creepiness. The first bit, the uncanny valley, we're all familiar with by now: If a humanoid robot looks super realistic, but not...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2019
At the world's top computer-vision conference last June, Google and Apple sponsored an academic contest that challenged algorithms to make sense of images from...Wired From ACM News | March 13, 2019
At the endless booths of this week's RSA security trade show in San Francisco, an overflowing industry of vendors will offer any visitor an ad nauseam array of...Wired From ACM News | March 7, 2019
I am but a babe, exploring the world for the first time. Wearing a computerized glove, I reach forward in pursuit of a little toy basketball.
Wired From ACM News | March 1, 2019
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...Wired From ACM News | December 17, 2018
Since 2016, IBM has offered online access to a quantum computer. Anyone can log in and execute commands on a 5-qubit or 14-qubit machine located in Yorktown Heights...Wired From ACM News | December 13, 2018