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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Sebastian Thrun on the Future of Learning
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...
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Icann President Sees Growth and International Acceptance
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has embarked on a path toward becoming a more international organization over the past year.
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Collect Yourself Before You Forget Yourself
Lifelogging attempts to capture, interpret, and supplement memories.
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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New Model to Improve Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication for 'Intelligent Transportation'
A newly developed model improves the clarity of vehicle-to-vehicle transmissions needed to make intelligent transportation a reality.
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'virtual Lolita' Aims to Trap Chatroom Pedophiles
Negobot, a "virtual Lolita" robot, poses as a 14-year-old girl and tries to identify pedophiles in online chatrooms.
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Daydreaming Simulated By Computer Model
A new virtual model of the human brain daydreams like people do.
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Zombies Offer Fresh Insight Into Crowd Behaviour
A new computer game simulates a zombie invasion, in order to gather data on crowd behavior and the impact of stress on decision-making.
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Make Way for State and Local Cyber-Ranges
The U.S. government has wanted a nationwide network of unclassified cyberexercise facilities for years, and now that idea is coming to state and local governments...
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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Fact or Fiction: Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
Since the dawn of the Web and ubiquitous free e-mail services over the past two decades, the need to secure personal information online has been evident but often...
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Here Come the Arabic, Russian, and Chinese Net Addresses
ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it has signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names...
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
From ACM TechNews
Predicting Earthquakes and Saving Lives--With Smartphones
A new app called CrowdShake provides early earthquake warnings by converting a smartphone's accelerometer into a seismometer.
From ACM Opinion
Censoring the News Before It Happens
Every day in China, hundreds of messages are sent from government offices to website editors around the country that say things like, "Report on the new provincial...
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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of 'robo Sapiens'
Moving its hands as if it were dealing cards and walking with a bit of a swagger, a Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance...
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A Technological Edge on Wildfires
Technology is helping to combat the growing frequency and danger of wildfires.
From ACM TechNews
Your Facebook Friends May Be Evil Bots
Groups of social bots could lead to disaster for large online destinations, or even threaten the fabric of the Internet, the economy, and society as a whole.
From ACM TechNews