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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Supreme Court to Weigh Cellphone Searches
The Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone, in two appeals that could define the parameters of law enforcement...
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Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense...
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Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates
Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation...
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Conjuring Images of a Bionic Future
Dick Loizeaux recently found himself meandering through a noisy New York nightclub.
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Study: People Pay More Attention to the pper Half of Field of Vision
People focus more on the upper half of their field of vision, according to a new study .
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Computer Program Could Help Solve Arson Cases
Researchers say they have developed software that can cut the time needed to determine the cause of a deliberately set fire.
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Microsoft Wants You to Educate Its Virtual Assistant
Microsoft's forthcoming mobile operating system upgrade will include Cortana, a virtual personal assistant designed to become more intelligent as people use it. ...
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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Supreme Court Takes on Privacy in Digital Age
Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
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Low-Level Federal Judges Balking at Law Enforcement Requests For Electronic Evidence
Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data...
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p Close on Baseball's Borders
Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated has called the line running through Connecticut that separates Yankee fans and Red Sox fans the Munson-Nixon line.
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Russia's Putin Calls the Internet a 'cia Project'
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares...
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Americans Predict a Future Like Science Fiction
Given the fast-paced changes that happen in technology, predicting the future has become more fun than guessing who will win the Super Bowl or "Dancing With the...
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Virtual Earth Plays Out Fate of Life on the Planet
We can simulate the climate and we can even simulate babies. Now, we can simulate life on Earth, too—the vast and complex interactions of the living organisms on...
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Robot Scouts Rooms People Can't Enter
Student researchers are working with Sandia National Laboratories to develop a robotic system that can be used to map rooms in three-dimensional space.
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The Forever Disc
Can our digital data represent us a million years from now?
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How Computers Are Changing Biology
Sophisticated computer models and simulations are replacing test tubes and beakers. This revolution in biology research is redefining medicine, agriculture, and...
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Alzheimer's and Cancer Link Found
Researchers have determined that Alzheimer's disease and glioblastoma multiform, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, share a pathway in gene transcription...
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Computational Method Dramatically Speeds Up Estimates of Gene Expression, CMU, UMD Researchers Report
Researchers say they have developed a computational method that dramatically speeds up estimates of gene activity from RNA sequencing data.
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