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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There's Water on Mars! Signs of Buried Lake Tantalize Scientists
A large saltwater lake seems to lurk under ice near Mars's south pole.
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Hordes of Research Robots Could Be Hijacked for Fun and Sabotage
Many experimental robots that live in research laboratories around the world may be wide open to hackers.
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sing Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery
Researchers collaborated on the use of machine learning algorithms to gain new insights about the history of music.
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Toolkit for Building a Smart City Plan
The Smart Cities Council has rolled out a Web-based portal to help cities gather and organize the data they require for smart city project planning.
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How .S. Intelligence Agencies Can Find Out What Trump Told Putin
President Donald Trump's insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin hobbled U.S. intelligence agencies that would usually...
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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"I Was Devastated": Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets
"For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it," Tim Berners-Lee told me one...
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Looking Toward the Sky, Trojans Trace UFO Sightings
Researchers analyzed thousands of documented UFO sightings to determine the degree to which factors such as movie releases and weather events shaped sighting patterns...
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Faster Photons Could Enable Total Data Security
Scientists have generated rapid single-photon light pulses, each of which representing a bit of binary code.
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Eagle-Eyed Machine Learning Algorithm Outdoes Human Experts
Researchers have taught computers to spot microscopic radiation damage to materials to be used in nuclear reactors.
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This Bomb-Simulating S Supercomputer Broke a World Record
Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem.
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Private Messaging Apps Increasingly sed for Public Business
One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record.
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Welcome to the Airport of the Future, Where Your Face Is Your Passport
Australia is a bloody long way from the rest of the world.
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First Machine Learning Method Capable of Accurate Extrapolation
Researchers have developed a machine learning method that uses observations to accurately extrapolate all possible conditions shaped by the same physical dynamics...
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Animals Teach Robots to Find Their Way
Navigation research demonstrates bio-machine symbiosis.
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Broadening the Path for Women in STEM
Organizations work to address 'a notable absence of women in the field.'
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A Record-Breaking Microscope
In a paper Nature, Jiang et al.1 report the highest-magnification image ever obtained using a transmission electron microscope.
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How a Flock of Drones Developed Collective Intelligence
The drones rise all at once, 30 strong, the domes of light on their undercarriages glowing 30 different hues—like luminescent candy sprinkles against the gray,...
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'Storm Chasers' on Mars Searching for Dusty Secrets
Storm chasing takes luck and patience on Earth—and even more so on Mars.
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