Communications of the ACM
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July 2018
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Dawn's Latest Orbit Reveals Dramatic New Views of Occator Crater
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data.
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I Never Said That! High-Tech Deception of 'Deepfake' Videos
Hey, did my congressman really say that? Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?
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NIST Researchers Simulate Simple Logic for Nanofluidic Computing
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers have shown how computational logic operations could be performed in a liquid medium by simulating the trapping of ions in graphene floating in saline solution.
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Quantum Open Source Fund Launched
The newly-launched Unitary Fund is offering grants of $2,000 to projects developing open source quantum software for near-term, hybrid quantum-classical programming.
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Security Gaps Identified in LTE Mobile Telephony Standard
Cyberattackers are abusing security weaknesses in the LTE mobile telephony standard that affect all devices using the network.
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Teaching Bipedal Robots to Step Across Discrete Terrain
Leveraging recent advances in optimal and nonlinear control systems, the University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a bipedal robot that can walk on stepping stones of varying height.
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Big Data Mining for Better Contact Center Performance
A European Union-funded project is using big-data mining software to improve customer experiences at contact centers.
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Why Cryptocurrencies Use So Much Energy
The electricity consumption of mining for cryptocurrencies is becoming a real concern. Here's what to do about it.
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Bringing the Internet to the (Developing) World
A growing number of low-cost (and free!) solutions aim to open the Internet to developing regions.
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You've Got Mail!
And that's not all. Email is not what it used to be.