Communications of the ACM
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September 2023
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MilliMobile Self-Driving Robot Is Powered by Light, Radio Waves
The self-driving, four-wheeled MilliMobile robot created by University of Washington researchers draws power from ambient light or radio waves, and can travel 10 meters an hour on variable surfaces.
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Procyon Photonics — The High School-Run Startup That Could Revolutionize Computing
Procyon believes it might be possible to run ChatGPT's large language model neural networks on their hardware.
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Three iOS 0-Days Used to Infect iPhone
Researchers said Apple has corrected a series iOS zero-day flaws used to infect Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy's iPhone with Predator spyware.
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AI Is Policing the Package Theft Beat for UPS
UPS and other large logistics companies are rolling out technology to curtail porch piracy.
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Researchers Advance Topological Superconductors for Quantum Computing
Researchers developed a new material system that combines a superconductor and a topological insulator with the goal of making more robust qubits.
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Wearable Optical Device Shows Promise for Detecting Postpartum Hemorrhage
A wearable optical device developed by Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) researchers can detect postpartum hemorrhage early.
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E.U. Law Sets the Stage for a Clash Over Disinformation
The law, aimed at forcing social media giants to adopt new policies to curb harmful content, is expected to face blowback from Elon Musk, who owns X.
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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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These New Tools Could Make AI Vision Systems Less Biased
Two new papers from Sony and Meta describe novel methods to make bias detection fairer.
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Scientists Closer to Finding a Test for Long COVID
A multi-institutional team of scientists may have discovered biomarkers of long COVID that could lay the groundwork for a diagnostic test.
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Four-Hundred-Pound NYPD Robot Gets Tryout in Times Square Subway Station
The New York Police Department has deployed a nearly 400-pound "fully autonomous outdoor security robot" in Times Square's subway station as a test run.
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Getting Audio from Still Images, Silent Videos
A machine learning tool developed at Northeastern University can obtain audio from still images and muted videos.
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Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries
The IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey indicates U.S. engineering salary growth lagged inflation for the second consecutive year, marking the first multiyear income decline since the 2000s.
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Europe at Forefront of 3D Printing Boom over Last Decade
The European Patent Office found that over the last decade, patent applications for three-dimensional printing technology rose eight times faster than all technology fields combined.
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Cyborg Cockroach Can Navigate a Maze
Researchers have developed a method of creating cyborg cockroaches for use in search-and-rescue missions or building inspections that does not injure them.
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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Why NASA Is Sending National Secrets to the Moon
NASA will work with startup Lonestar plus the Isle of Man to send a data payload to the Moon next February to assess lunar-based backup storage as part of the Artemis program.
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Cyber Experts Set Out to Secure 2024 U.S. Election
A team of cybersecurity experts established through the U.S.-based nonprofit Information Technology – Information Sharing and Analysis Center will undertake a "clear and concerted approach" to create a protocol for collaborative…
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Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up
Researchers at Cornell University and Israel's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have engineered a soft quadruped robot that locomotes via internal combustion.
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ChatGPT Can Now Generate Images
OpenAI has integrated a new version of its DALL-E image generator into its ChatGPT online chatbot.
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Sentinel Satellites Map Methane Super-Emitters
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that uses machine learning to automatically detect methane super-emitter plumes in data from satellites.
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Machine Learning Models Can Produce Reliable Results with Limited Training Data
Researchers demonstrated that machine learning models can generate reliable results even with limited training data.
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3D Insights into an Innovative Manufacturing Process
Researchers used three-dimensional (3D) tomography to document the laser-based power bed fusion process of 3D printing at the microscopic level.
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Microsoft AI Researchers Accidentally Exposed Big Cache of Data
Scientists at cloud security company Wiz discovered Microsoft artificial intelligence researchers accidentally compromised a large collection of private data.
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Researchers Unlock Chip-Based Thermionic Cooling for Quantum Computers
Researchers at Finland's VTT Technical Research Center designed a device that could potentially cut cooling costs for dilution-refrigerated quantum computers 10-fold.
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Capturing Carbon
Can carbon-capture technologies take the heat off climate change?
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Machine Learning Innovation Reduces Computer Power Usage
A new machine learning framework can manage power usage to reduce energy consumption in multi-core computer processors.
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Amazon Adapts Cashierless Tech for Clothing Stores
A new version of retail giant Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless shopping technology for clothing vendors keeps track of apparel via radio-frequency identification (RFID).
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Driverless Car Company Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter
U.K.-based driverless car company Wayve has tapped chatbot technology to question its vehicles about their driving decisions.
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Nanophotonics Flattens Camera Lenses
Nanoscale meta-optics holds the promise of improved imaging while removing the bulges from smartphones.