Communications of the ACM
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November 2016
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Leading Chipmakers Eye Euv Lithography to Save Moore's Law
Even after you don a bunny suit and get deep inside Fab 8, it's hard to get a sense of scale.
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Nasa Moon Mission Shares Insights Into Giant Impacts
New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth's moon and other solid worlds, like Earth, Mars, and the…
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Apis Are Changing the Way We Pay
Application programming interfaces are being used increasingly to facilitate electronic payments.
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Supercomputing the P53 Protein as a Promising Anticancer Therapy
University of California, San Diego professor Rommie Amaro is using a supercomputer to model the tumor suppression protein p53.
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Playing Grand Theft Auto Can Teach Autonomous Cars How to Drive
Self-driving cars can learn the rules of the road by studying virtual traffic on videogames such as Grand Theft Auto V, according to a new study.
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Ddos Defenses Emerging From Homeland Security
Public, private, and academic researchers are collaborating on new distributed denial-of-service defenses.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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Learning Securely
Because it is easy to fool, machine learning must be taught how to handle adversarial inputs.
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Farm Automation Gets Smarter
As fewer people work the land, robots pick up the slack.