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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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From ACM Opinion
Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...
From ACM Opinion
A Peek nder the Hood at the Brains of Self-Driving Cars
What car maker today doesn't seem to have an autonomous car bumbling around its test lot?
From ACM News
Why Bluetooth se Is On the Rise
Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years. Named after Denmark's King Harald "Bluetooth" Blatand, who reigned in the first century AD, it is a technology that...
From ACM TechNews
Can You Beat This Machine at Angry Birds?
A new artificial intelligence agent is capable of playing Angry Birds independently.
From ACM News
Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
From ACM TechNews
Penn Develops Computer Model That Will Help Design Flexible Touchscreens
Researchers have developed a method for designing transparent conductors using metal nanowires that could result in less expensive and more flexible touchscreens...
From ACM TechNews
The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition is a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely.
From ACM Careers
The Big Data Employment Boom
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.
From ACM TechNews
Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
A new survey found the number of teenagers interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics dropped 15 percent this year.
From ACM TechNews
Researchers Discover Breakthrough Technique That Could Make Electronics Smaller and Better
An international group of scientists have developed a technique for manufacturing nanostructures that could make electrical and optical devices smaller and better...
From ACM News
How the N.S.A Cracked the Web
It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications.
From ACM News
Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.
From ACM News
This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a i
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...
From ACM News
Huge Botnet Found sing Tor Network For Communications
In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...
From ACM TechNews
Nsa Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
The National Security Agency uses a variety of means to overcome encryption technologies, such as supercomputers, technical strategies, court orders, and persuasion...
From ACM TechNews
Quantum Chip Connected to Internet Is Yours to Command
University of Bristol researchers have brought quantum computing to the cloud, enabling anyone with a Web browser to be able to log in and run basic algorithms...
From ACM TechNews
Internet Needs 'cyber Fire Department' to Protect Web Users, Claims Vint Cerf
The Internet needs a cyber fire department to keep risks found on websites and services from spreading, says Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president...
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Older Brains Benefit From Video Game
University of California, San Francisco scientists found that people between the ages of 60 and 85 who played a videogame showed improved cognitive controls and...
From ACM TechNews
Scientists Expand Scale of Digital Snooping Alert
Researchers at Toshiba's European research laboratory in Cambridge, England, have released a paper describing a way to enable a group of users to exchange encryption...
From ACM TechNews