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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China's Plan to Organize Its Society Relies on 'big Data' to Rate Everyone
Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you...
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New tsa Study Describes Method to Detect Dishonesty Online
A new study describes a method for detecting people dishonestly posting online content across multiple accounts.
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Researchers Are Teaching Artificial Intelligence How to Terrify Humans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have trained a computer to produce scary images.
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Finding Patterns in Corrupted Data
A new set of algorithms developed is capable of efficiently model-fitting probability distributions to high-dimensional data.
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Robot Learns to Play With Lego By Watching Human Teachers
Researchers from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany have trained a robot to play with Legos by having it observe two people build a Lego...
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You Are Less Anonymous on the Web Than You Think--Much Less
A user's anonymous browsing history, tweets, emails, and cookies can be used to piece together their identity.
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Your Home's Online Gadgets Could Be Hacked By ltrasound
This may have happened to you. You idly browse a pair of shoes online one morning, and for the rest of the week, those shoes follow you across the Internet, appearing...
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Making It Easier to Collaborate on Code
A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an interface that addresses many of the core problems of the powerful open source tool Git.
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Robotic Tutors For Primary School Children
Researchers in Spain have developed an integrated computational architecture for use with software applications in schools.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize applications and redefine the digital economy.
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Farm Automation Gets Smarter
As fewer people work the land, robots pick up the slack.
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The FCC Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Protect Your Online Privacy
Federal officials delivered a landmark ruling in favor of online privacy Thursday, limiting how Internet providers use and sell customer data, while asserting that...
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Rice's Energy-Stingy Indoor Mobile Locator Ensures ser Privacy
A new system developed by Rice University researchers could enable mobile users to quickly determine their location indoors.
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Turning Your Living Room Into a Wireless Charging Station
A panel could one day remotely charge smartphones, tablets, and other devices within its line of sight.
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Flying Drones Could Soon Recharge While Airborne With New Technology
Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated a highly efficient method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The Pentagon has made artificial intelligence the core of its agenda to maintain the U.S. position as the world's leading military power.
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Women in Computing to Decline to 22% By 2025, Study Warns
New research warns the number of women in the computing workforce will decline if nothing is done to encourage more to study computer science.
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Will Visual Programming Crack the Code on Learning?
An emerging generation of visual coding platforms is introducing software development to young people and other beginners.
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...
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