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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.


Durable, Dense, and Efficient: The Promise of DNA Data Storage
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Durable, Dense, and Efficient: The Promise of DNA Data Storage

Is DNA the future of data storage?

Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey

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

Soft, Sensitive, and Smart
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Soft, Sensitive, and Smart

The future of robotic skin.

Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
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Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights

A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.

Sensors on the Brain
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Sensors on the Brain

Implantable wireless monitors give researchers a new look inside the human body.

Bias in Technology
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Bias in Technology

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

What's Next For Digital Humanities?
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?

New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.

One Brain to Teach Them All
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One Brain to Teach Them All

How the new field of cloud robotics will impact intelligent machines.

The New Smart Cities
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The New Smart Cities

How urban information systems are slowly revamping the modern metropolis.

Translation By Technology
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Translation By Technology

A switch to machine learning techniques has led to steady improvements in automated translation.

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.

Hacking the Hill
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Hacking the Hill

A growing number of organizations think technology holds the potential to improve the efficiency of government.  

Printing Houses on the Moon
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Printing Houses on the Moon

How do you create structures on other worlds when the expense of carrying building materials there is so great?

Wearables For Animals
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Wearables For Animals

Wearable technologies help pet and livestock owners know their animals better than ever before.

Redesigning the Data Center
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Redesigning the Data Center

Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
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