Communications of the ACM
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November 2020
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Apple Introduces New Macs With the First Apple Chips
Apple unveiled three new Mac computers that use processors the company created itself, ending its reliance on Intel.
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Researchers Isolate, Decode Brain Signal Patterns for Specific Behaviors
Researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that isolates and decodes behaviors based on signals from the brain.
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AI Shows Potential to Gauge Voter Sentiment
Some technology experts believe using artificial intelligence to gauge voter sentiment could help to better understand the electorate.
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Thin Holographic Video Display for Mobile Phones
At South Korea's Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, researchers invented a method for creating a thin holographic video display for mobile phones.
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Computer Model Can Predict How Covid-19 Spreads in Cities
A team of researchers has developed a computer model that accurately predicted Covid-19's spread in 10 major cities earlier this year.
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Hybrid 3D-Printing Bioinks Help Repair Knee Cartilage
Researchers engineered two new three-dimensional (3D) printing hybrid bioinks that can be used to print a replacement for damaged knee cartilage.
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Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography
A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.
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Tunisian Startup 3D-Prints Solar-Powered Bionic Hands
Tunisian startup Cure Bionics has developed a three-dimensionally-printed solar-powered bionic hand, to help amputees and other disabled people throughout Africa.
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Flexible, More Reliable Sensor Developed
A new sensor material has high sensitivity but low hysteresis, paving the way for more accurate wearable health technology and robotic sensing.
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Retailers Use AI to Improve Online Recommendations for Shoppers
Online retailers have taken steps during the pandemic to improve their search and recommendation engines by building predictive models with high levels of accuracy.
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Spoofing the Spoofers
Security deception software gets an upgrade.
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AI Model Detects Asymptomatic Covid-19 Infections Through Cellphone-Recorded Coughs
A new artificial intelligence model between asymptomatic people infected with Covid-19 and healthy individuals via forced-cough recordings.
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NHS Signs Up for Tim Berners-Lee Pilot to Reinvent Web
The U.K.'s National Health Service is among more than a dozen partners that have signed up for a pilot program of Tim Berners-Lee's new company to promote a new Web data architecture.
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AI News Bias Tool Created by USC Computer Scientists
University of Southern California computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool to automatically detect bias in news.
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Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality
Silicon Valley companies are scooping up Hollywood digital visual-effects artists and technology to enhance their augmented and virtual reality products with lifelike experiences.
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Japanese Scientists Create Mind Control Tech for Robot
Japanese scientists have engineered a prototype device that allows anyone to control a miniature toy Gundam robot with thought.
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Robots Now Can Understand What You Are Saying to Follow Commands
University of Michigan researchers have developed a model that simplifies robots' ability to follow commands by allowing them to understand what people are saying.
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Intel's Success Came With Making Its Own Chips. Until Now.
The Silicon Valley pioneer long held it had to build its flagship chips in its own factories; then it hit the wall and is considering outsourcing—a milestone in the story of America's losing its manufacturing primacy,
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How AI Can Help Save Forests
Scientists are developing artificial intelligence-driven methods to aid forest conservation by enabling a new level of real-time awareness.
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Python's Popularity: Ahead of Java for 1st Time, Still Trailing C
Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most-popular programming language on the Tiobe index for the first time.
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A Next-Generation Computer Chip With Two Heads
Engineers in Switzerland have developed a computer chip that combines logic operations and data storage in a single architecture.
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Drone Technology Improves Ability to Forecast Volcanic Eruptions
An international team of researchers modified long-range drones that collect data from active volcanoes, in order to better forecast eruptions.
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Robots Help Answer Age-Old Question: Why do Fish School?
Researchers used biomimetic fish-like robots to demonstrate that fish save energy by swimming in schools without having to keep fixed distances from each other.
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Help Wanted: Quantum
How the U.S. can build a quantum workforce.
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Japan Inc. Finds New Business Case for Robotics During Covid-19
Heavy investment in robots helped many Japanese businesses manage an increase in online orders during the pandemic.
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Surrey Device Takes Us Closer to High-Performing Wearable, Eco-Disposable AI Electronics
Researchers developed the Multimodal Transistor to produce efficient analog computation for robotic control, artificial intelligence, and unsupervised machine learning.
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Dart-Shooting Drone Attacks Trees for Science
Researchers have come up with a method to increase the efficiency of setting up sensor networks by using a drone as a launching platform for laser-aimed, sensor-equipped darts.
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Autonomous Boats Could Be Your Next Ride
Researchers have developed the world's first fleet of autonomous boats, along with algorithms to permit communication and collaboration among the boats.
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Disney Research Makes Robotic Gaze Interaction Eerily Lifelike
A team of researchers is imbuing animatronic robots with lifelike eye gaze.
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Software Can Spy on What You Type in Video Calls by Tracking Your Arms
A new model can track the movement of the shoulders and arms of a person typing during a video call to determine what they are typing.