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The Top Technews Stories of 2015
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TechNews is assembled from hundreds of English-language technology publications from all over the world. Three times each week, an email containing TechNews, in form of a dozen or so abstracts and links to deeper information, is sent to nearly 100,000 ACM member inboxes.
As was the case the year before, the most frequently clicked-on links in TechNews are those that provide access to the most recently updated Android, iPhone, and iPad versions of the ACM TechNews App, which allows access to TechNews through a smart portable device.
As for non-app content, the most popular link clicked on by readers of TechNews during 2015 was a link to the Friday, Aug. 14th Science News article "A few key signs betray betrayal," describing a computer scientist’s use of the game Diplomacy to study patterns of communication between players that foreshadow betrayal, as a proxy for studying "real-life treachery."
Following are the 10 most frequently clicked-on content links in TechNews during 2015:
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Rank |
Content |
URL |
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1 |
A few key signs betray betrayal, Science News, Aug. 7, 2015 |
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/culture-beaker/few-key-signs-betray-betrayal |
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2 |
Tired of memorizing passwords? A Turing Award winner came up with this algorithmic trick, Network World, Aug. 31, 2015 |
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2978312/tired-of-memorizing-passwords-a-turing-award-winner-came-up-with-this-algorithmic-trick.html |
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3 |
‘FREAK’ flaw undermines security for Apple and Google users, researchers discover, The Washington Post, March 3, 2015 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/03/03/freak-flaw-undermines-security-for-apple-and-google-users-researchers-discover/ |
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4 |
What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell you about Turing’s greatest triumph, The Washington Post, Feb. 20, 2015 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-imitation-game-didnt-tell-you-about-alan-turings-greatest-triumph/2015/02/20/ffd210b6-b606-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html |
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5 |
The most popular programming languages are rapidly changing, Quartz, April 8, 2015 |
http://qz.com/378939/the-most-popular-programming-languages-are-rapidly-changing/clicks |
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6 |
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program, Reuters, Feb. 16, 2015 |
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyberspying-idUSKBN0LK1QV20150216 |
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7 |
18 universities produce half of US and Canada’s computer science professors, Quartz, Feb. 12, 2015 |
http://qz.com/343521/18-universities-produce-half-of-us-and-canadas-computer-science-professors/ |
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8 |
A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer, Wired, Feb. 11, 2015 |
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/crypto-trick-makes-software-nearly-impossible-reverse-engineer/ |
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9 |
These researchers have discovered the perfect password that’s also easy to remember, Wired, Oct. 22, 2015 |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/22/these-researchers-have-discovered-the-perfect-password-thats-also-easy-to-remember/ |
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10 |
Computer scientists use Twitter to predict UK general election result, University of Warwick News & Events, May 5, 2015 |
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/computer_scientists_use/ |
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Lawrence M. Fisher is Senior Editor/News for ACM Magazines.
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