Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google's New Chip Is a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing Supremacy
A team of Google researchers by the end of this year plans to build a device that achieves "quantum supremacy."
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Inside China's Plans For World Robot Domination
Scenes from China's quest to dominate the robotic future: At startup E-Deodar, a human-looking droid serves coffee to employees who are building $15,000 industrial...
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Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
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Not Stuck on Silicon
Researchers have developed a new technique they say could reduce the overall cost of wafer technology.
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Why Is Russia So Good at Encouraging Women Into Tech?
Irina Khoroshko, from Zelenograd near Moscow, had learned her times tables by the age of five.
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Rechargeable 'spin Battery' Promising For Spintronics and Quantum Computing
Researchers at Purdue University have produced a rechargeable "spin battery" from topological insulators.
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Combating Cancer With Data
Supercomputers will sift massive amounts of data in search of therapies that work.
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Making Chips Smarter
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are motivating researchers to design and build new chips to support different computing models.
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Bionics in Competition
Developers of innovative assistive devices compete as a means of networking with each other.
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Dna's Secret Weapon Against Knots and Tangles
Leonid Mirny swivels in his office chair and grabs the power cord for his laptop.
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On Venus, Tectonics Without the Plates
As we've explored the Solar System, some items we're familiar with from Earth's geology have kept appearing in new places.
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Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
A collaboration between researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Google has enabled the Internet company to reduce the number of fraudulent businesses...
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t Researcher Creates Robotic Cheetah
Researchers are developing a scaled-down robotic version of a cheetah that uses only about 15% more energy than the real animal.
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Nasa's Mars Rover Opportunity Leaves 'tribulation'
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is departing "Cape Tribulation," a crater-rim segment it has explored since late 2014, southbound for its next destination...
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50 Years Ago, a Computer Pioneer Got a New York Subway Race Rolling
Fifty years ago, Peter Samson, one of the inventors of Spacewar, considered the world's first video game, began another craze underground.
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'space Fabric' Links Fashion and Engineering
Raul Polit Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design...
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Find Out If a Robot Will Take Your Job
At a community college in upstate New York, 12 cafeteria workers recently learned that they will lose their jobs—and be replaced by self-serve machines.
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Pattern Discovery Over Pattern Recognition: A New Way For Computers to See
Researchers are designing machine-learning systems to enable supercomputers to identify large-scale atmospheric structures in climate data.
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Could the S Take Out North Korea's Missiles Before Launch?
A failed missile launch in North Korea Sunday has brought renewed attention to reports that the United States is trying to degrade North Korea's missile capabilities...
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