Communications of the ACM
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June 2022
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Ethereum Mining Is Going Away
Ethereum mining could end soon due to "the Merge," leaving as many as 1 million miners out of a source of income.
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Global Satellite Map Will Help Hunt Down Illegal Fishing Vessels
A new digital map uses satellite radar imagery to identify potential illegal fishing vessels.
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Ex-Amazon Worker Convicted in Capital One Hacking
Paige Thompson's lawyers said she had been looking for cracks so they could be fixed. A jury found her guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges.
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Yoshua Bengio, Fellow AI Pioneers, Honored with Spain's Princess of Asturias Award
The 50,000-euro Princess of Asturias Award is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world, covering the arts, humanities and literature, among others.
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White House Rolls Out Task Force to Curb Online Abuse
Group will create recommendations for governments, companies and schools to address the link between online harassment and violence in the wake of mass shootings.
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Celebrated AI Learned a New Trick: How To Do Chemistry
Just as the order and spacing of the letters in this article give it sense and message, so the order of the amino acids determines the protein's identity and shape, which results in its function.
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Engineers Create Single-Step 3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials
University of California, Los Angeles engineers and colleagues designed a one-step three-dimensional printing process for manufacturing robots.
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Shedding Light on Linguistic Diversity and Its Evolution
Researchers have established a global archive of linguistic data to provide new insights into the evolution of the words and sounds of spoken languages.
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3D Scans Reveal Ancient Art in Alabama Cave
A team of researchers used three-dimensional (3D) photo mapping to find previously hidden ancient etchings in an Alabama cave.
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Stronger Security for Smart Devices
Two new security techniques block power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks targeting analog-to-digital converters in smart devices.
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Big Tech to Work with EU to Fight Misinformation, Deepfakes
Although voluntary, breaking the Code after signing up to it risks an even heavier fine than breaching GDPR rules.
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Stanford University Professor Receives ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
Mark Horowitz was first to identify the Processor-Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Interface.
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AI Model Tries to Re-create the Mind of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Researchers at Israeli artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs have developed and released an AI model of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Tech Giants Start Getting Real on AR
Big technology companies are scaling back their plans for augmented reality (AR) devices.
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Amazon Will Deliver Packages via Drone for First Time in U.S. Later This Year
Amazon is seeking permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and local officials to begin drone deliveries in Lockeford, CA, later this year.
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Soft Robotics is About More than Building Robots
It's also about building nature.
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China Bank Protest Stopped by Health Codes Turning Red
Bank depositors in China said a protest in Henan province was halted by authorities using COVID surveillance infrastructure to turn health code applications red.
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Robot Can Find Keys in a Bag by Listening as It Rummages
Stanford University researchers trained a microphone-outfitted robotic arm to locate objects like keys in a handbag by listening for telltale sounds while searching.
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How DOJ Took the Malware Fight into Your Computer
The U.S. Department of Justice increasingly is being allowed to delete malware from Americans' computers without their knowledge or authorization.
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Ministry of Defence Acquires U.K. Government's First Quantum Computer
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has acquired that government's first quantum computer from London-based Orca Computing.
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Canadian Internet Outage Attributed to Beaver
The beaver's assault continues a long tradition of animals messing with the cables humans put where they live.
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Teslas Running Autopilot Have Been in 273 Crashes in Less Than a Year
Regulators released the first batch of data since mandating that companies such as Tesla report on serious crashes involving their driver-assistance systems.
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Why You May Have a Thinking Digital Twin Within a Decade
Artificial intelligence combined with the Internet of Things allows the digital construction of digital twins that constantly learn from and help improve their real counterparts.
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Alberta Investing C$23 Million Toward U of C's Quantum City
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has announced that the Canadian province is investing C$23 million (US$17.9 million) in the University of Calgary Quantum City hub.
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FDA Warns DNA Sequencing Machines Could Be Hacked
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that certain Illumina DNA-sequencing machines have a software vulnerability that could jeopardize patient data.
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Nature Publishes Chinese Scientists' Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
The tunable MZM lattice can help overcome environment interference, providing a more reliable, more efficient quantum computing capability.
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Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum
Fujitsu aims to increase the pace of quantum application development by using the same microprocessors used in the Fugaku supercomputer.
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Logan Ury Says You're Dating All Wrong
This is Ms. Ury's job: to validate, as much as to volley back what she claims are research-backed strategies for hacking modern romance.
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MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can't Be Patched
The vulnerability is rooted in pointer authentication codes.
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You Agreed to What? Doctor Check-In Software Harvests Your Health Data
A consent form from Phreesia gives it permission to use your data for marketing.