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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Most expensive destroyer in Navy history breaks down
The most expensive destroyer ever built for the Navy suffered an engineering problem in the Panama Canal and had to be towed to port.
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Food data at your fingertips
EPFL is launching openfood.ch, a website that provides the public with data on more than 14,000 food products sold in Switzerland. The website's data set will be...
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Drone had 'very near-miss' with plane near London's Shard
A drone just missed hitting an A320 plane flying above the Shard skyscraper in central London in July—one of several near-misses involving passenger jets in Britain...
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Obama administration gives specifications for smart gun tech
The Obama administration is announcing baseline specifications for smart-gun technology.
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Can Chatbots Replace Customer Service Reps?
Chatbots may be good at cosumer-focused tasks, but the verdict is still out are not whether a chatbot can completely replace human assistants. The post Can Chatbots...
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Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research
By Andrew J. Ko, Associate Professor, University of Washington and Susanne Hambrusch, Professor, Purdue University Anyone
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At $800K a pop, new Navy destroyer's ammo is in question
The new guns on the Navy's biggest and most advanced destroyer are going to be firing blanks if the Navy can't find cost-effective projectiles.
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Computer outage briefly grounds flights on several airlines
Airlines are dealing with another computer outage that is disrupting flight schedules heading into the weekend.
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$12.9B, 4.5 acres: Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier
The Navy refers to its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, as "4.5 acres of sovereign U.S. territory." The $12.9 billion warship—the first of the Navy's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Global Technology Policy Update – November 2016
ACM PUBLIC POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Computer Security – ACM Europe Policy Committee members attended the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in...
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After off-mark polls, some question value of 'big data'
For an American public that relies on data for everything from where to find the best taco to the likely victor in a baseball game, Election Day offered a jarring...
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America's aging voting machines managed to survive another election
During this year's voting, the vast majority of states used outdated voting machines perilously close to the end of their projected lifespan. Back in April, we...
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Internet Voting: Not Ready For Prime Time
By Barbara Simons, Former President Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Jeremy Epstein, Vice Chair of ACM US Public
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Print newspapers are dead? Not after historic elections
Print newspapers may be disappearing like the home telephone, but not after Election Day.
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Safety chief: Honda must do more to fix dangerous air bags
Honda must do more to track down owners of 300,000 cars with highly dangerous Takata air bag inflators and make sure they are repaired, the nation's top auto safety...
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Aviation professor expects boost in fliers for the holidays
Increases in summer airline travel could be an indicator of things to come for flying during the holiday season.
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'Invisible': A rousing all-round thriller in virtual reality
Here's a series that aims to break rules in every direction.
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Washington's version of Silicon Valley startup founders
The Obama administration's "18F" program to create its own version of a high-tech startup for government digital projects has foundered since its launch in 2014...
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Report: Gunmen still control metals mined for modern gadgets
Violent gunmen still menace pick-and-shovel miners in eastern Congo, a new report finds, despite years of efforts to loosen their grip by local reformers, Western...
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