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If A Novel Was Good, Would You Care If It Was Created by Artificial Intelligence?
The first computer-generated screenplays are promised within five years. Fiction can't be far behind.
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Illinois Law Gives Candidates Rights to Understand How Employers Use Algorithms to Rate Job Interviewees
A new law in Illinois aims to give job candidates a better understanding of how companies use artificial intelligence to screen video interviews.
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Virtual Assistants Provide Disappointing Advice When Asked for First Aid, Emergency Information: Study
Researchers have found the major virtual assistants do not live up to their potential in terms of providing users with reliable, relevant information on medical...
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DC Water Taps AI for Sewer Line Assessments
A new algorithm helps Washington, D.C., sewer pipe technicians obtain a more-accurate picture of what is happening in the network of pipes running beneath the city...
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Intel and Softbank Beware: Open Source Coming for Chips
Opening up part of the chipmaking process could jostle the industry.
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Critical Flaw Demonstrated in Common Digital Security Algorithm
Researchers have demonstrated a security flaw in the widely used SHA-1 security algorithm that would allow bad actors to fake files and the information within them...
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CT Scans, 3D Printing Give Voice to Mummified Priest
Researchers in the U.K. used computed tomography scanning and a three-dimensionally-printed larynx to reproduce the sound from the vocal tract of a 3,000-year-old...
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IBM's Debating AI Just Got a Lot Closer to Being a Useful Tool
IBM upgraded the neural networks of its Project Debater system to improve the quality of evidence the argument-mining system uncovers.
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Deepfake Software Translates Videos from One Language to Another
New software automatically translates a video of a person speaking in one language into another language, while matching their lip movements to the new words.
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Man Diagnosed with Wuhan Coronavirus Is Being Treated Largely by a Robot
The first person diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S. is being treated with the help of a robot at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, WA...
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Scientists Try to Help Congress Get Smarter About Tech
Government scientists and technologists are trying to help U.S. lawmakers become more technology-savvy.
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Intel Patching the Patch for the Patch for 'Zombieload' Flaw
Intel said it will release yet another patch for a microarchitectural data sampling vulnerability that allows hackers to fool microprocessors into exposing protected...
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Top ACM TechNews articles of 2019
One of the most popular topics among the 10 most-clicked-on items in ACM TechNews during 2019 was, once again, programming and programming languages.
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Next Generation of Organ-on-Chip Has Arrived
Researchers have met the U.S. DARPA challenge to create next-generation organ-on-a-chip models.
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The Easy Route the Easy Way: Chip Calculates the Shortest Distance in an Instant
A new chip uses special components to calculate the possible shortest distance to traverse up to 22 cities in a short period of time.
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Can I Mix Those Chemicals? There's an App for That!
A new open source computer program can advise users to prevent the mixture of incompatible chemicals.
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Foiling IoT Hackers
Cybersecurity specialists are working to head off hackers trying to use the Internet of Things as their gateway into smart homes.
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Scientists Unraveling Chinese Coronavirus with Unprecedented Speed, Openness
Chinese scientists freely released the genetic sequence of a coronavirus 10 days after the first reported case, to help researchers worldwide better understand...
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