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Intel: Moore's Law Will Continue Through 7nm Chips
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Intel: Moore's Law Will Continue Through 7nm Chips

Papers Intel plans to share this week are meant to reassure the computer industry about the viability of Moore's Law, at least for the immediate future. 

More Watchful Eye Needed on 'dark Web' and Cybercriminal Activities, Notes New Paper
From ACM TechNews

More Watchful Eye Needed on 'dark Web' and Cybercriminal Activities, Notes New Paper

New research calls for increased monitoring of the Dark Web by security researchers and government investigators. 

Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
From ACM TechNews

Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on a new contest aimed at creating a system to predict cyberthreats a network may face ahead...

What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
From ACM TechNews

What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs

For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...

The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas
From ACM News

The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas

How do you solve a problem like Europa?

Building a Face, and a Case, on Dna
From ACM News

Building a Face, and a Case, on Dna

There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going.

Python at 25
From ACM News

Python at 25

Guido van Rossum speaks exclusively with CACM about the computer language Python, which he created a quarter-century ago.

This Is Your Avatar Speaking
From ACM News

This Is Your Avatar Speaking

Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...

Tracing Languages Back to Their Earliest Common Ancestor Through Sound Shifts
From ACM TechNews

Tracing Languages Back to Their Earliest Common Ancestor Through Sound Shifts

A new statistical technique can detect when changes to words' pronunciations most likely occurred in the history of related languages.

Experts: Infrastructure 'legitimate Target' in Battle For Cyber Supremacy
From ACM TechNews

Experts: Infrastructure 'legitimate Target' in Battle For Cyber Supremacy

The leaders of the U.S. Defense Department, National Security Agency, and Cyber Command have all warned of the potential for a cyber 9/11.

Computer Science and Espn: Sports and Technology Collide
From ACM TechNews

Computer Science and Espn: Sports and Technology Collide

Christine Chung helped develop the K-Zone effect system, a computer-generated, on-screen rectangular box that serves as a strike zone for those watching TV. 

Computer Scientists' App Measures Our Online Footprints
From ACM TechNews

Computer Scientists' App Measures Our Online Footprints

A new app can assess how well someone's online persona matches their true nature. 

Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the ­.S. and Iran
From ACM News

Document Reveals Growth of Cyberwarfare Between the ­.S. and Iran

A newly disclosed National Security Agency document illustrates the striking acceleration of the use of cyberweapons by the United States and Iran against eachnuclear...

Social Network Analysis Privacy Tackled
From ACM TechNews

Social Network Analysis Privacy Tackled

Pennsylvania State University researchers are researching ways to maintain privacy on social networks.

Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton Delivers Secrets Through 3D Scanning
From ACM News

Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton Delivers Secrets Through 3D Scanning

In 2013, London's Natural History Museum acquired a rare Stegosaurus skeleton.

The Paradox of Popping Back in Time
From ACM Opinion

The Paradox of Popping Back in Time

Here we go again.

Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication
From ACM News

Polymers Brighten Hopes For Visible Light Communication

Today nearly all computers, tablets, and cell phones have Wi-Fi capabilities, receiving and transmitting data over a range of radio frequencies.

Python For Beginners
From Communications of the ACM

Python For Beginners

A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.

Car Talk
From Communications of the ACM

Car Talk

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication is coming. Are we ready for it?

Automating Organic Synthesis
From Communications of the ACM

Automating Organic Synthesis

A machine that could create organic molecules on demand awaits appropriate software and analytical components.
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