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Big Brother Is Watching You
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Big Brother Is Watching You

Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.

How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
From ACM TechNews

How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts

Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.

A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
From ACM News

A Game You Can Control With Your Mind

When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.

Your Broadband Provider Can ­se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You
From ACM News

Your Broadband Provider Can ­se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You

How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own...

Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too
From ACM TechNews

Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too

Researchers have developed a way for high school students and first-year engineering students to learn robot intelligence technologies.

Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions

Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor...

With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
From ACM News

With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings

In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.

Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
From ACM Opinion

Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google

As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...

A Good Read: AI Evaluates Quality of Short Stories
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A Good Read: AI Evaluates Quality of Short Stories

Researchers say they have developed neural networks that assess short narratives to predict which stories will appeal to large audiences.

Microsoft Claims New Speech Recognition Record, Achieving a Superhuman 5.1% Error Rate
From ACM TechNews

Microsoft Claims New Speech Recognition Record, Achieving a Superhuman 5.1% Error Rate

Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research Group says it has achieved a 5.1%  error rate for its speech-recognition technology.

­ta Researchers Developing Airborne Network Computing Platform For ­avs
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­ta Researchers Developing Airborne Network Computing Platform For ­avs

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have received a grant to develop a networked airborne computing platform for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles...

Robot the Musical
From ACM News

Robot the Musical

Artificial intelligence promises to change aspects of music ranging from rock concerts to advertising jingles.

Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
From ACM Careers

Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars

In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.

Teaching Kids Coding, By the Book
From ACM TechNews

Teaching Kids Coding, By the Book

Girls Who Code has arranged a deal with Penguin to release 13 books over the next two years.

Animation Made Easy
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Animation Made Easy

New software makes it easier to animate characters.

Time's Running Out to Prevent a Massive Cyberattack on Critical Infrastructure
From ACM TechNews

Time's Running Out to Prevent a Massive Cyberattack on Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Council warns there is a shrinking window of opportunity to fortify critical U.S. infrastructure against a massive "9/11...

Meet Mappy, a Software System That Automatically Maps Old-School Nintendo Games
From ACM TechNews

Meet Mappy, a Software System That Automatically Maps Old-School Nintendo Games

Mappy is a new software system that can autonomously generate maps of a video game's levels.

New York ­niversity Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop 'unhackable' Computer Chip
From ACM TechNews

New York ­niversity Abu Dhabi Researchers Develop 'unhackable' Computer Chip

Researchers say they have created an "unhackable" computer chip to boost the defenses of computer hardware.

Computer Approaches Human Skill For First Time in Brain Challenge
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Computer Approaches Human Skill For First Time in Brain Challenge

Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can map brain neural networks with close to human-level accuracy.

Print No Evil: Three-Layer Technique Helps Secure Additive Manufacturing
From ACM TechNews

Print No Evil: Three-Layer Technique Helps Secure Additive Manufacturing

Researchers have developed a three-layer system for validating that components produced via additive manufacturing have not been compromised.
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