Communications of the ACM
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November 2023
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Gordon Bell Prize Awarded for Materials Simulations That Achieve Quantum Accuracy at Scale
A team of researchers from U.S. and Indian institutions was awarded the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize.
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DeepMind Accurately Forecasts Weather on a Desktop Computer
Google DeepMind developed a machine-learning weather-forecasting model that outperformed the best conventional forecasting tools.
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Hologram Lets Philippines' Marcos Speak in Singapore While Visiting U.S.
About an hour after delivering a speech in California on Wednesday, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appeared in Singapore via hologram.
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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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China Claims World's Fastest Internet
Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000-km (1,860-mile) Internet network linking Beijing to the south.
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Web Browsing Data Collected in More Detail Than Previously Known
Web browsing data is being collected and sold in greater detail than previously thought, according to a report by the non-profit Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
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Glasses Use Sonar, AI to Interpret Upper Body Poses in 3D
Cornell University researchers have developed a wearable device that uses inaudible soundwaves and artificial intelligence to track the user's upper body movements in three dimensions.
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Making Empathy Artificial
Scientists strive to add the ability to understand what others are feeling to artificial intelligence.
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Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?
The two men jostling to be the country's next president are using artificial intelligence to create images and videos to promote themselves and attack each other.
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Universities Train Engineers for the Quantum Future
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing software.
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Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease
The American Heart Association is removing race as a factor in predicting heart disease from a widely used cardiac-risk algorithm.
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Smart Emergency Responses to Severe Weather
A new system calculates the fastest routes for emergency services to respond to calls while factoring in traffic disruptions that may result from climate-related disasters.
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How Quantum Computing Can Benefit Drug Discovery
Quantum computing aims to reduce cost and time.
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Fake Reviews Are Rampant Online. Can a Crackdown End Them?
A wave of regulation and industry action has placed the flourishing fake review business on notice. But experts say the problem may be insurmountable.
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Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a centimeter-scale quadruped robot inspired by origami.
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Researchers Develop Solid-State Thermal Transistor for Better Heat Management
A solid-state thermal transistor enables precision control of heat movement in semiconductor devices using the on-off switching of an electric field.
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Rats Use Imagination to Navigate in VR
Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute tested whether rats, like humans, can use their thoughts to navigate a virtual environment.
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Magnetic Sensors Pinpoint GPU Cryptojacking Attacks
Identifying incursions with magnetic sensors.
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A Man with Parkinson's Regained the Ability to Walk, Thanks to a Spinal Implant
The implant delivers bursts of electrical signals, stimulating his spinal cord to make his leg muscles move.
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Thousands in Line to Get Brain Chip Implant by Elon Musk's Neuralink
The implant, designed to replace the removed skull piece, will read and analyse the person's brain activity and wirelessly relay this information to a nearby laptop or tablet.
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Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them?
The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications.
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Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission
An algorithm developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers aims to identify potential failures in simulated autonomous systems prior to their real-world deployment.
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Silicon Valley's Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone
San Francisco-based startup Humane is pinning its hopes on what's being billed as the first artificially intelligent device.
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Digital Twins May Enable Personalized Health Treatment
Combining data about the human body with patients’ personal data to create digital twins of their organs could lead to personalized treatments and help avoid medical complications.
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Finding Answers (About the Best Way to Find Answers)
Computer scientists at the University of Southern California considered which knowledge graph representations are best for different applications.
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Smartphone Application Increases Safety in Liver Surgery
An international team of researchers developed a smartphone application that provides a personalized risk score for patients undergoing liver surgery.
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Robot Mimics a 450-Million-Year-Old Extinct Marine Organism
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that uses insights from extinct organisms to create soft robots.
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Algorithm Aids in Early Detection of Age-Related Eye Disease
A new deep learning algorithm can predict whether an individual's age-related macular degeneration will progress to geographic atrophy, which is more severe, within a year.
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AI Makes Mobile Networks More Efficient
A new artificial intelligence model could boost U.K. telecommunications providers' bandwidth efficiency and augment mobile networks' environmental sustainability.
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Study Helps Explain How Selfies Are Used to Communicate
Researchers at Germany's Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences enlisted 132 people to examine 1,001 selfies and characterize their first impressions.