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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.
Proposed legislation would require subjecting consumers to criminal history background checks before permitting them to purchase certain three-dimensional printers...PC Magazine From ACM TechNews | October 24, 2023
A method of mapping phosphenes developed by researchers at Australia's Monash University could help patients receiving cortical visual protheses achieve better...Monash University (Australia) From ACM TechNews | October 24, 2023
Facial recognition software is speeding up check-in at airports, cruise ships and theme parks, but experts worry about risks to security and privacy.
The New York Times From ACM News | October 24, 2023
The StrokePointer brain-wave cap designed by researchers in the Netherlands can diagnose large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke while patients are in an ambulance....Interesting Engineering From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2023
China, Russia, and the U.S. are racing to find ways to prevent future quantum computers from cracking long-supported encryption protocols.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2023
University of Texas at Austin researchers showed how taking certain measurements on a quantum computer results in different phases of quantum information.
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2023
Researchers found running datacenters at higher temperatures could reduce their energy consumption significantly while maintaining computational performance.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2023
The use of facial recognition software to expedite admission to venues like airports and theme parks is raising privacy and security concerns among experts.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2023
The researchers received the best paper award for their proposed chiplet-enabled computer architecture.
WSU Insider From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2023
An international team of researchers developed a vision-based algorithm enabling off-the-shelf quadruped robots to move from obstacle to obstacle autonomously and...Stanford News From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2023
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...Tom's Hardware From ACM TechNews | October 18, 2023
Pennsylvania State University' researchers emulated taste's influence on food cravings with an electronic "tongue" and "gustatory cortex" made from two-dimensional...Penn State News From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2023
Researchers explored how electrical stimulation in stick insects' leg muscles relate to the resulting torque for enabling precise motor control of hybrid insect...Tohoku University (Japan) From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2023
The study's authors concluded the sensors proved more effective at tracking the disease progression "than the conventionally used clinical rating scales."
...The New York Times From ACM News | October 17, 2023
Several companies have started marketing "live-captioning glasses" to help hearing-impaired users communicate by overlaying real-time transcribed speech on the...Scientific American From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2023
A team led by researchers at China's Huazhong University of Science and Technology developed a self-configuring optical chip for applications requiring optical...Optica From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2023