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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Standards Leader Blasts Html5 Video Copy Protection
Microsoft, Google, and Netflix recently proposed a standard for copy-protected Web video, but HTML editor Ian Hickson calls it impractical and unethical.
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How Data Storage Cripples Mobile Apps
The latest smart phones and tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month came with an emphasis on faster processors and compatibility with faster...
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Report: Open Source Tops Proprietary Code in Quality
Open source code has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software, according to the 2011 Scan Open Source Integrity Report from the U.S. Department...
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New Chips Help Bring High-Definition Sound to Smartphones and Other Devices
Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music, and send email. But while their gadgets have been designed to handle increasing amounts...
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Appeals Court pholds Constitutional Right Against Forced Decryption
A federal appeals court has found a Florida man's constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices.
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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis
Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor...
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A Law Apple Would Like to Break
These days, it’s hard to find a superlative that adequately describes Apple. But maybe simplest is best: biggest.
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In Back Alleys and Basements, Video Arcades Quietly Survive
The Stockton Tunnel, excavated in 1914, lets San Francisco drivers get between downtown and Fisherman’s Wharf without having to ascend the scarily steep grades...
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More Design Hobbyists, Entrepreneurs Use 3D Printing
Matt Sullivan, a retired soldier, still has trouble explaining his right leg to strangers.
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The DIY Copyright Revolution
It is something of a fluke that copyright law has become so intertwined with our online lives. For most people, the first things that were easy to create and distribute...
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Smithsonian Turns to 3d to Bring Collection to the World
With just 2% of the Smithsonian's archive of 137 million items available to the public at any one time, an effort is under way at the world's largest museum and...
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"unethical" Html Video Copy Protection Proposal Draws Criticism from W3c Reps
A new Web standard proposal authored by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix seeks to bring copy protection mechanisms to the Web.
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'do Not Track' Button
Alongside the news that the White House will announce voluntary privacy guidelines for Web companies comes the announcement from major online advertisers that they...
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Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual Reality
It wasn't so long ago that legions of people began walking the streets, talking to themselves. On closer inspection, many of them turned out to be wearing tiny...
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Stanford niversity Researchers Break Nucaptcha Video Security
When it launched in 2010, NuCaptcha touted its proprietary technology as being able to "provide the highest level of security available" by using video streams...
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Algorithm Uses Photo Networks to Reveal Your Hometown
There is growing evidence that information gleaned from online social networks can be processed and used in ways to gain an accurate profile of an individual.
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Nash's Beautiful Mind Pre-Empted Million-Dollar Puzzle
John Nash's mind is even more exquisite than we thought. The Nobel laureate, famous for both his work in game theory and his schizophrenia—as portrayed in the book...
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Gaining Wisdom from Crowds
Online games are harnessing humans' skills to solve scientific problems that are currently beyond the ability of computers.
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Policing the Future
Computer programs and new mathematical algorithms are helping law enforcement agencies better predict when and where crimes will occur.
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