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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.


Lip-Reading AI Could Help the Deaf—or Spies
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Lip-Reading AI Could Help the Deaf—or Spies

An artificial intelligence program from DeepMind can read lips better than professional lip readers.

Skoltech Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth
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Skoltech Scientists ­se Computer Vision and Machine Learning to Predict Plant Growth

Researchers have developed a method for predicting the growth of biomass of a plant, which they say will improve the efficiency of precision farming.

Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record
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Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record

Scientists have just packed 18 qubits—the most basic units of quantum computing—into just six weirdly connected photons.

The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
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The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player

The gems of every World Cup are the impossible goals.

Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?
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Why Are Countries Creating Public Random Number Generators?

In Chile, politicians resent the Comptroller General, which audits government officials to prevent corruption.

AI Researchers Allege that Machine Learning Is Alchemy
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AI Researchers Allege that Machine Learning Is Alchemy

Ali Rahimi, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI) at Google in San Francisco, California, took a swipe at his field last December—and received a 40-second...

China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online

China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...

Scientists Have Built a 'hallucination Machine' For a Drug-Free Brain Trip
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Scientists Have Built a 'hallucination Machine' For a Drug-Free Brain Trip

Researchers say they can replicate hallucinatory experiences by combining virtual reality technology and Google's Deep Dream neural network system into a "Hallucination...

The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret

A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.

Virtual Reality Eases Phantom Limb Pain
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Virtual Reality Eases Phantom Limb Pain

A new system uses virtual reality technology to relieve sufferers of phantom limb pain.

Computer Scientists Have Created the Most Accurate Digital Model of a Human Face
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Computer Scientists Have Created the Most Accurate Digital Model of a Human Face

Imperial College London researchers have automated the generation of three-dimensional morphable models used to represent human faces.

Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus
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Research Teaches Machines to Decipher the Dawn Chorus

The U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is supporting research on deciphering the timing and sequences of bird calls.

Computer Diagnoses Cataracts as Well as Eye Doctors Can
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Computer Diagnoses Cataracts as Well as Eye Doctors Can

Scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University in China are using a new artificial neural network to recognize and diagnose congenital cataracts as accurately as eye doctors...

Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays
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Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays

A bizarre microbe found deep in a gold mine in South Africa could provide a model for how life might survive in seemingly uninhabitable environments through the...

Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre
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Quantum Teleportation Was Just Achieved Over More Than 7 Km of City Fibre

Quantum teleportation just moved out of the lab and into the real world, with two independent teams of scientists successfully sending quantum information across...

It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless ­niverse
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It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless ­niverse

Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top?

­sing Data to Better ­nderstand Climate Change
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­sing Data to Better ­nderstand Climate Change

A University of Minnesota-led research team is using data-driven approaches to better understand the environmental and social impacts of climate change.

Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent

The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.

Tackling Intractable Computing Problems
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Tackling Intractable Computing Problems

Princeton University researchers used a $10-million U.S. National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing award to find the sources of intractability.

Service Robots Are Coming to Help US
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Service Robots Are Coming to Help US

A U.S. National Science Foundation program aims to advance and integrate robotics into people-centered service systems in homes, hospitals, and elder-care facilities...
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