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At a racetrack in Florida this weekend, 16 robots competed to complete a series of tasks inspired by challenges faced in cleaning up the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...The New York Times From ACM News | December 23, 2013
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...The Washington Post From ACM News | December 23, 2013
In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...Wired From ACM News | December 20, 2013
Researchers for the first time have used 3D printing to make a consumer electronic device, a loudspeaker ready for use almost as soon as it comes off the printer...Txchnologist From ACM News | December 20, 2013
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | December 19, 2013
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...Rolling Stone From ACM News | December 19, 2013
When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons–but that didn’t keep him from seeing the intrinsic...Smithsonian magazine From ACM News | December 16, 2013
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...The New York Times From ACM News | December 16, 2013
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer.Time From ACM News | December 12, 2013
Two student pilots are seated shoulder to shoulder before a bank of video monitors, maneuvering an unmanned aircraft by keyboard and mouse as the drone descends...The Associated Press From ACM Careers | December 12, 2013
At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2013
In 1984, Mike Lazaridis, an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and Douglas Fregin, an engineering student at the University of Windsor, founded...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | December 10, 2013
University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Rob Nowak has been exploring an active learning model of computing, in which the machine receives all of the data up front...University of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2013