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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GPS Collars for Lions, Cheetahs: How IoT, Open Source Are Protecting Rare Animals
Smart Parks is testing lightweight GPS collars that can be fitted to lions and cheetahs in Liwonde, Malawi.
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Massive Spying on Users of Google's Chrome Shows New Security Weakness
A recent spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of add-ons to Google's Chrome Web browser.
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Circular Reasoning: Spiraling Circuits for More Efficient AI
Researchers stacked resistive random-access memory modules for artificial intelligence applications in a novel three-dimensional spiral.
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Reducing and Eliminating E-Waste
We need to mitigate the environmental impact of disposing of electronics at their end of useful life.
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Your Wish Is My CMD
Artificial intelligence could automate software coding.
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Robots Will Take 50 Million Jobs in the Next Decade. These Are the Skills You'll Need to Stay Employed
A new report finds that automation will take over a significant part of work activities in Europe by 2030.
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The Cost of Training Machines Is Becoming a Problem
The assumption that the cost of training computers is declining with the doubling of computing power every two years does not always hold true.
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For a Cold, Heartless Robot, Sally Makes a Decent Salad
A new high-tech vending machine can dispense a salad into a compostable bowl and keep ingredients at constant, food-safe temperatures.
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Five Times More Efficient Data Transfer
Researchers have developed a method to transfer bits across a silicon chip up to five times more efficiently than standard setups.
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U.S. HHS Battles DDoS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
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The First Intuitive Programming Language for Quantum Computers
Computer scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have created the first intuitive high-level quantum programming language.
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Quantum Backbone
An Oak Ridge early-career award recipient plots the infrastructure for a quantum-information highway.
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Activists Cite Tabulation Flaw in Georgia Mail-In Ballots
Thousands of votes in Georgia's primary may not have been counted, due to faulty software or poorly calibrated scanners used to count mailed ballots.
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Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb's Vibrations
Researchers have developed a long-distance eavesdropping method that exploits vibrations on the glass surface of a light bulb's interior.
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Elite CIA Unit that Developed Hacking Tools Failed to Secure its Own Systems, Allowing Massive Leak
The breach came nearly three years after Edward Snowden stole and disclosed classified information about NSA surveillance operations.
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Next-Generation Cockroach-Inspired Robot Is Small, but Mighty
The researchers say the new robot is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots created to date.
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KingMiner Botnet Brute-Forces MSSQL Databases to Install Cryptocurrency Miner
U.K. cybersecurity firm Sophos is advising MSSQL database owners to fortify their servers against botnet-orchestrated brute-force attacks.
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In Autonomous Russia, Tractor Drives You
Two Russian companies have partnered on an advanced autonomous driving system for agricultural vehicles.
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