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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The Year Encryption Won
Between the revelations of mega-hacks of Yahoo and others, Russia's meddling in the US electoral system, and the recent spike in ransomware, it's easy to look at...
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Motion-Planning Chip Speeds Robots
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...
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CLA Researchers Combat Antimicrobial Resistance sing Smartphones
New technology from a University of California, Los Angeles research team could help combat the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
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Why Microsoft Believes We're on the Threshold of Quantum Computing
Most researchers aiming to make quantum computing a reality focus on superconducting quantum bits (qubits), but Microsoft's approach avoids harnessing electronic...
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Mass Data Retention in Eu
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home—like Jarvis in Iron Man.
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Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...
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Grids of Defects Make Diamonds Practical For Quantum Computing
One of the more exciting things happening in physics at the moment is the development of quantum computers that may actually be able to do something useful.
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The Great A.i. Awakening
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...
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Mapping the Internet of Things
Researchers are discovering surprising new risks across the fast-growing IoT.
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Welcome to the Machines
The home robotics market poised for growth, technological advancement.
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Where Is the Ice on Ceres? New Nasa Dawn Findings
At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy.
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Ephemeral Antimatter Atoms Pinned Down in Milestone Laser Test
In a technical tour-de-force, physicists have made the first measurements of how antimatter atoms absorb light.
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Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of...
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Posture Could Explain Why Women Get More Vr Sickness Than Men
New studies explore why women experience more motion sickness than men while using virtual reality.
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Autonomous Swarmboats: New Missions, Safe Harbors
Researchers used a combination of software, radar, and other sensors to develop a swarm of autonomous rigid hull inflatable boats and other small boats that can...
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Elevator Makers Think Outside the Box, and Even Sideways
ThyssenKrupp's new $43 million elevator test tower soars 246 meters (808 ft) above the German town of Rottweil, but the company's lifts chief is not only thinking...
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