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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley For Riches Back Home
A few years ago, Wang Yi was living the American dream. He had graduated from Princeton, landed a job at Google and bought a spacious condo in Silicon Valley.
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"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"
Long-overlooked CPU vulnerabilities have come to light.
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When Wi-Fi Won't Work, Let Sound Carry Your Data
If you've ever struggled to pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or set up a wireless printer, you know that it's often easier to connect to a server halfway...
From ACM Opinion
Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers
Hundreds of gadget makers and software companies at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas are staking the success of their newest products...
From ACM TechNews
Team's Lifesaving App Could Help Farmworkers Beat the Heat
Calor is a new smartphone app designed to send automatic heat warnings to farmworkers in the field.
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open
Researchers hope to make a fragile ancient Coptic codex readable by scanning it with computerized tomography and then using software to extract legible text.
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Driverless Cars Might Follow the Rules of the Road, but What About the Language of Driving?
Navigating the complexity of unspoken rules and social and linguistic cues to communicate with drivers, pedestrians, and others sharing the road is a challenge...
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Japanese Scientists Just sed AI to Read Minds and It's Amazing
Researchers say they have used deep neural networks to decode thoughts.
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With the Summit Supercomputer, U.s. could Retake Computing's Top spot
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 .s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...
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Fbi Chief Calls nbreakable Encryption 'urgent Public Safety Issue'
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety issue," FBI Director...
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Can You Save the World with Origami?
Teams of students demonstrated a broad range of original video games at the University of Southern California GamePipe Laboratory Fall 2017 Showcase.
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Huskie Hackers Developed Innovative Solutions to Health and Wellness Challenges
The 2017 Northern Illinois University Huskie Hack featured 269 student hackers who were tasked with developing solutions to health- and wellness-related challenges...
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Next-Gen Flexible Robots Move and Heal Like S
Researchers are developing next-generation robots from soft materials that react to applied voltage with a wide range of motions.
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Deep Learning Sharpens Views of Cells and Genes
Researchers are using deep-learning convolutional neural networks to analyze retinal photos to predict a person's blood pressure, age, and smoking status.
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Autonomous Construction Vehicles Are Building the Future
Self-operated construction vehicles will gain traction long before self-driving cars.
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Logging On to Public Wi-Fi Networks Is About to Get More Secure
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced a major change to Wi-Fi security.
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‘it Can’t Be True.’ Inside the Semiconductor Industry’s Meltdown
Researchers uncover security holes too big to believe.
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