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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Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with 'deep Learning'
Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior, such as automatic braking or steering to avoid an...
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Someday Soon, You May Pay Your Restaurant Bill With A Retina Scan
The past 30 years have seen payments shift from cash and checks to debit cards and websites, and most recently to mobile phone apps, including Apple Pay and ...
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Tougher to se Bitcoin For Crime?
Researchers say they have found ways to determine the identity of anonymous Bitcoin users in between 11 and 60 percent of all Bitcoin transactions.
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'Internet of Things' Poses Risks, FTC Chairwoman Warns
By 2015, the world will have 25 billion smart thermostats, fitness bands, and other Internet-connected, data-spewing devices, according to the Federal Trade Commission...
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FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality Rules in February
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Friday announced it will hold a vote on new net neutrality rules during its upcoming February meeting.
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Throwing Money at Data Breach May Make It Worse
Researchers have found that overcompensation of customers affected by a data breach may only raise suspicions, rather than satisfy customers' sense of justice.
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The Town Without Wi-Fi
Monique Grimes had just moved to Florida for a new job when the syndrome started.
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Web Freedom Is Seen as a Growing Global Issue
Efforts by various governments to censor the Internet made headlines in 2014 and are likely to continue in 2015.
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Prying Eyes: Inside the Nsa's War on Internet Security
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication.
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The Scoreboards Where You Can't See Your Score
The characters in Gary Shteyngart's novel "Super Sad True Love Story" inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.
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A Q&a With the Hackers Who Say They Helped Break Into Sony's Network
Lizard Squad. That's the hacker group whose name is suddenly on everyone's lips after it took credit for ruining Christmas for PlayStation and Xbox gamers everywhere...
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Google Boosts ACM's Turing Award Prize to $1 Million
The increase reflects the escalating impact of computing on daily life, through the innovations and technologies it enables.
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Downing North Korea's Internet Not Much of a Scalp
If someone did just knock North Korea off the Internet for half a day, it wouldn't have taken much.
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Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
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What Does a Cyber Counterattack Look Like?
President Barack Obama promised at his year-end news conference Friday that the U.S. will respond "proportionally" to North Korea's cyberattack against Sony Pictures...
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.
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Sony Made It Easy, but Any of S Could Get Hacked
Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Peace hacked into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer systems and began revealing many...
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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