Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Australian Researchers Tap Cloud to Save the Tasmanian Devil
Researchers in Australia have partnered with Amazon Web Services on using cloud-based services to process, analyze, and categorize genomic data to protect endangered...
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Companies Seek to Pool Medical Records to Create Coronavirus Patient Registry
Software and healthcare companies are seeking to create a registry of COVID-19 patients by gathering medical records from across the country.
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'Punch-Card' DNA Could Mean Cheaper High-Capacity Data Storage
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have proposed an alternative to custom-synthesizing DNA for high-capacity data storage.
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Molecule Co-Discovered at University of Limerick Leads to Breakthrough on How Data is Stored
Researchers have discovered a metal-organic molecule that can switch between three distinct, long-lived states.
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Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, Data Suggest
Data suggests that mass business closures and social-distancing edicts imposed to fight the coronavirus pandemic are helping reduce the numbers of fevers recorded...
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Waymo Gamifies Self-Driving Car Data and Wants Everyone Involved
Waymo has expanded its Open Dataset and invited researchers to tackle one of five challenges related to the data.
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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Introducing the Light-Operated Hard Drives of Tomorrow
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne created a proof of concept platform for hard drives that will be smaller, faster, and more energy...
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Integrating Electronics Onto Physical Prototypes
MIT researchers directly integrated three-dimensionally (3D)-printed platforms onto physical products.
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U.K.-Funded Supercomputer Models Locust Flows, as Outbreak Continues
A U.K.-funded supercomputer in Kenya is being used to simulate locust swarm migrations ravaging East Africa.
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This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking
Researchers have developed an app that will let users know what IoT technologies are operating in the immediate vicinity and what data they are collecting.
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In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, with Red Flags
To manage the coronavirus epidemic, China is requiring citizens to use software on their smartphones.
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New Yorkers Face Training Gap for Tech Jobs, but Study Finds Hope
A study by the nonprofit research group Center for an Urban Future offers hope for New York City employees who lack the training to qualify for upcoming technology...
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Across the Language Barrier
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
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Can Nanosheet Transistors Keep Moore's Law Alive?
The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.
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Mapping Coronavirus: South Koreans Turn to Online Tracking as Cases Surge
Private software developers have launched websites and apps to help people in South Korea track cases of coronavirus and avoid places where infected people have...
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Texas Man Close to Exoneration After Algorithm Leads to New Suspect
A man convicted for murder is on track to have his conviction overturned, thanks to an algorithm that reanalyzed DNA and pointed to a new suspect.
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Self-Driving the Longest Route Yet
A self-driving vehicle has completed a 230-mile drive along roads in Britain as part of a project overseen by researchers at the U.K.'s University of Leeds and...
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