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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Microsoft’s Hololens Will Put Realistic 3D People in Your Living Room
Demonstrations of augmented-reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters and robots that aren’t really there.
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How Stargazing Became a Numbers Game
People have long thought of astronomy as the science of looking to the stars, but discoveries in the cosmos increasingly come from a different kind of observational...
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NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in niverse
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
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Fast Track Program Invites Non-Traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Fast Track program aims to create a system for the rapid, cost-effective development of new robotics...
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Quantum Life Spreads Entanglement Across Generations
Computer scientists have long known that evolution is an algorithmic process that has little to do with the nature of the beasts it creates.
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Your Brain's nique Response to Words Can Reveal Your Identity
Watch your language. Words mean different things to different people—so the brainwaves they provoke could be a way to identify you.
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Between the Lines
Smartphone apps are driving changes in the way people park. Sensors, crowdsourcing, and big data are making it easier to find open parking spots.
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Plenty of Proteins
The growth of structural biology brings new challenges for the world's protein data archive.
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Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'em—for Now
In 1997 chess master Gary Kasparov went to battle against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a landmark match. After six games Deep Blue prevailed, marking the...
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Virtual Avatar
When Facebook bought Oculus VR back in March of 2014, many wondered exactly what the social network was going to do with it; let's face it, many of us are still wondering...
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Computing at the Speed of Light
A new ultracompact beamsplitter for dividing light waves into separate channels could lead to computers that work millions of times faster than conventional machines...
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Quantum Physics: What Is Really Real?
Owen Maroney worries that physicists have spent the better part of a century engaging in fraud.
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Nasa Soil Moisture Mission Begins Science Operations
NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission to map global soil moisture and detect whether soils are frozen or thawed has begun science operations.
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New Chip Architecture May Provide Foundation for Quantum Computer
A new device that enables more electrodes to be placed on a chip could bring the field one step closer to a quantum computer that can perform complex algorithms...
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A Nano-Transistor Assesses Your Health Via Sweat
A new ultra-low-power sensor enables real-time scanning of the contents of liquids such as perspiration.
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Hacking the Brain
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...
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.s. Science Academies Take On Human-Genome Editing
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will launch a major initiative to develop guidelines for editing human genomes...
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Technology Doesn't Explain the Philly Train Crash
Cars can now drive by themselves. Automatic pilot systems can fly a jet airliner much of the time. Why is it so hard to make trains that can stop on their own?
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Can We Identify Every Kind of Cell in the Body?
How many types of cells are there in the human body? Textbooks say a couple of hundred. But the true number is undoubtedly far larger.
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