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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Hackers se Old Lure on Web to Help Syrian Government
Hackers working on behalf of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been very successful in stealing crucial battlefield data from rebels.
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New Rules in China pset Western Tech Companies
The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn over secret source code, submit to...
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Shopping Habits Reveal Personal Details in 'anonymized' Data
Details about where and when you use your credit card could help reveal your identity to data thieves—even if they don't know your name, address and other personal...
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China Further Tightens Grip on the Internet
Chinese officials this week acted to block the functioning of several virtual private networks its citizens use to circumvent China's online censorship apparatus...
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The Technology that nmasks Your Hidden Emotion
Paul Ekman, perhaps the world's most famous face reader, fears he has created a monster.
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Bitcoin Scams Steal at Least $11 Million in Virtual Deposits From nsuspecting Customers
Fraudulent schemes have scammed at least $11 million in Bitcoin deposits from unsuspecting cyber customers over the past four years, say researchers.
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What Does Privacy 'look' Like? Carnegie Mellon Project Seeks Drawings
Privacy Illustrated, a Carnegie Mellon University project, invited people to draw what privacy means to them and already has amassed hundreds of drawings.
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The Search Engine of the Future Will Be All-Seeing, All-Knowing 'watcher in the Sky'
Stefan Weitz, until recently senior director of search at Bing, observes the Internet has become much more massive since Google was conceived in the 1990s.
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Ftc Says Internet-Connected Devices Pose Big Risks
Internet-connected devices present serious data security and privacy risks, according to a U.S. Federal Trade Commission report released this week.
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AI Will Not Kill s, Says Microsoft Research Chief
Microsoft Research's chief has said he thinks artificial intelligence systems could achieve consciousness, but has played down the threat to human life.
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Mass Surveillance 'endangers Fundamental Human Rights,' Says Study
A leading European human rights body warns mass Internet surveillance is a threat to basic human privacy rights and has not apparently prevented terrorist attacks...
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Visualizing Sound
New techniques capture speech by looking for the vibrations it causes.
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Online Privacy: Regional Differences
How do the U.S., Europe, and Japan differ in their approaches to data protection — and what are they doing about it?
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Using Technology to Help People
Companies are creating technological solutions for individuals, then generalizing them to broader populations that need similar assistance.
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Back-p Brains: The Era of Digital Immortality
A few months before she died, my grandmother made a decision.
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Profitable Phishing Schemes Slyly Tinker With Our Heads, Then Rip S Off
The use of information-rich phishing scams can alter recipients' cognitive processes, making them more likely to fall victim to the emails, according to a new study...
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Verizon's Mobile 'supercookies' Seen as Threat to Privacy
Long-standing concerns about the "supercookies" Verizon Wireless uses to tag its users for advertising purposes have resurfaced.
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Malware Could Steal Data From Iphones sing Siri
A security vulnerability in the iPhone 5 series of smartphone could be exploited by malicious software and compromise a user's personal information via Siri.
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