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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Cryptocurrency
The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.
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Dumping Friends on Facebook Helps Make You Secure
Arizona State University researcher Pritam Gundecha has developed a method for determining which Facebook friends are most likely to leak private information.
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Online Review Too Good To Be True? Sometimes It Is
Online reviews are many, but it's often difficult to tell the real ones from the fakes. To help sort the genuinely delighted customers from profit-driven praise...
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Stanley Kubrick Envisioned the Ipad in '2001,' Says Samsung
Sometimes life really does imitate art. In the battle to compete with Apple's iPad, Samsung has channeled the spirit of Stanley Kubrick, the director of "2001...
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Judge Says Warrant Required For Cell Phone Location Data
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some...
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A Turbulent End to the Pc Era
The personal computer recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Then last week, Silicon Valley staged the PC's funeral.
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'endless Forms' Uses the Web to Breed 3-D Printable Objects
Cornell University researchers are using their new, interactive EndlessForms.com Web site to allow anyone online to guide the evolution of printable, three-dimensional...
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Why Google Had to Have Motorola Mobility
For several years now, Google has been following a vow made by former CEO Eric Schmidt: mobile first. New CEO Larry Page is taking that dictum to a new level...
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Bart Protests: San Francisco Transit Cuts Cellphones to Thwart Demonstrators; First Amendment Debate
San Francisco's BART—the Bay Area Rapid Transit system—has clashed with demonstrators again over a First Amendment issue: whether it can legally cut off cellphone...
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Millions of Web Pages Are Hacker Landmines
Some eight million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the...
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The Death of Booting p
Remember "booting up"? It was the first thing you did every morning—you waited two minutes, three minutes, sometimes even longer while your computer ran through...
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How Ibm's 5150 Pc Shaped the Computer Industry
Most people in the Western world walk around with a powerful computer in their pocket or purse, otherwise known as a smartphone. It's not unusual to see someone...
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Industry Tries to Streamline Privacy Policies For Mobile sers
As concerns grow over data collection, including proposed legislation to more closely protect consumers, mobile applications developers are building basic privacy...
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When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong
A complex picture of your personal life can now be pieced together using a variety of public data sources, and increasingly sophisticated data-mining techniques...
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Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi For All
The nonprofit Manna Energy Foundation's Geeks Without Frontiers initiative recently announced the final development of an inexpensive, open source Wi-Fi software...
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David Cameron Considers Banning Suspected Rioters from Social Media
David Cameron has told parliament that in the wake of this week's riots the government is looking at banning people from using social networking sites, such as...
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On Its Own, Europe Backs Web Privacy Fights
European regulators are increasingly embracing the concept of giving people the right to be forgotten on the Web by providing them with greater control over their...
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