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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
From Communications of the ACM

Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey

Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.

Bias in Technology
From Communications of the ACM

Bias in Technology

As leading companies release troubling diversity statistics, experts search for solutions.

Sensing Emotions
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Sensing Emotions

How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.

The New Smart Cities
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The New Smart Cities

How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.

Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code
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Next in Live Entertainment: Watching People Code

Streaming video of developers as they code is gaining a growing audience.

Intelligent Living
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Intelligent Living

After years of false starts, the smart home is gaining momentum.

The New Digital Medicine
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The New Digital Medicine

Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.

New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing
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New Models in Cosmetics Replacing Animal Testing

A European law spurs scientists to develop computational simulations capable of predicting the toxicity of cosmetics.

Future-Proof Encryption
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Future-Proof Encryption

Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.

Beyond Hadoop
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Beyond Hadoop

The leading open source system for processing big data continues to evolve, but new approaches with added features are on the rise.
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