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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GM's Cruise Recalls, Updates Software in Robotaxis
A crash in June prompted General Motors' Cruise autonomous vehicle unit to recall 80 robotaxis and update their software.
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Next Generation of Hearing Aids Reads Lips Through Masks
An international team of researchers developed a system that can read lips accurately through face masks using radio-frequency sensing and artificial intelligence...
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Pushing the Frontiers of Mathematical Research
Computer proof assistants are being used to create online libraries of mathematical theorems and proofs.
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Everything Apple Announced
Wednesday's iPhone launch event saw the release of four new iPhone models, plus an Apple Watch built to take a beating.
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What Deep Learning Algorithms Can Teach Us About Snow
The DeepPrecip neural network developed by Fraser King and colleagues at the University of Waterloo models weather in order to measure annual snowfall and snowmelt...
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Organizations Spending Billions on Easy-to-Bypass Malware Defense
Research suggests that hackers can easily circumvent Endpoint Detection and Response systems, the malware detecting and blocking solutions on which organizations...
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Earthquakes Seem to Come in a More Predictable Pattern Than We Thought
A machine learning model developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis can analyze decades of earthquake data to predict future earthquakes.
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NFTs Increasingly Targeted by Criminals
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic warned criminals are increasingly targeting nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
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One Man's Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can't make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants...
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Technology Can Improve Buildings for People with Dementia
The Plan-EAT tool for assessing buildings combined with spatial analysis can improve the design of aged care facilities for people with dementia.
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TikTok Browser Can Track Users' Keystrokes
A privacy researcherfound the TikTok video application's Web browser can track users' keystrokes.
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Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.
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How AI Is Driving the Esports Boom
Artificial intelligence is helping the esports industry take the world by storm.
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Quantum Annealing Can Beat Classical Computing in Limited Cases
Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time is limited.
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Thousands of GitHub Repositories Hacked to Include Malware
Software developer Stephen Lacy identified a malicious URL in the code of an open source project on GitHub that he found through a Google search.
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Zoom Used In Smuggled Code Attack
Google Project Zero security researcher Ivan Fratric launched a remote code execution attack by exploiting the technology underlying Zoom and other applications...
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The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
Lennert Wouters at Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven hacked SpaceX's Starlink network.
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