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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Immersion Cooling Heats Up
Depending on climate conditions, the availability of renewables and other factors, immersion cooling can make a profound difference in both energy consumption and...
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DARPA: Safeguarding Data for Stronger Democracy
The agency is using emerging encryption techniques to protect data in transit, in storage, and during computation.
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Raising Robovoices
New systems can model and synthesize voices, and even translate them into other languages.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health
How AI can be used to improve diagnosis of mental health conditions.
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These are The 5 Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Jobs in 2022
Unlike sectors such as hospitality, the cloud computing industry continued to grow in 2020 and onwards. But it's not stopping there.
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U.S. FBI Says It Disrupted Russian Hackers
U.S. officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had seized control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances from Russian hackers.
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Volunteers Scramble to Preserve Ukraine's Digital Culture
More than 1,300 volunteers are working to preserve Ukraine's digital culture.
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UPS Expands Deal with Google Cloud to Prepare for Surge in Data
United Parcel Service has expanded its deal with Google Cloud, which will involve greater network, storage, and computing capacity.
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Deepfakes Trying to Change the Course of War
Deepfake videos are being used to manipulate the course of the war in Ukraine.
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A Tool for Predicting the Future
A group of researchers has developed a system that allows nonexperts to generate predictions in just a few seconds.
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Can AI Learn to Forget?
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
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Technology's Impact on Morality
Leading technologists and thinkers are concerned about technology's impact on our ethical thinking.
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Russia Faces IT Crisis with Just Two Months of Data Storage Left
The withdrawal of Western cloud computing companies from Russia has left the country with roughly two months before it runs out of IT data storage.
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Encryption Meant to Protect Against Quantum Hackers Is Easily Cracked
Ward Beullens at IBM Research Zurich in Switzerland easily cracked a cryptography algorithm touted as one of three contenders for a global standard against quantum...
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How Picking Up Your Smartphone Could Reveal Your Identity
Researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Bath use phone usage time to help identify users
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Toyota Halts Japan Production As Supplier Probes Possible Cyberattack
Toyota-owned truck manufacturer Hino Motors said two of its plants were affected, while Daihatsu, a Toyota affiliate that makes small cars, reportedly also stopped...
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Tech Giants to Be Forced to Share More Data Under EU Proposal
Groups say rules unfairly target the biggest firms and could push companies to store more data in Europe.
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A Group Effort
Researchers look for new insights in the world of hypergraphs.
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Accelerating AI
Specialized hardware to boost the speed of machine learning also saves energy.
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