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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Big Data May Be Fashion Industry's Next Must-Have Accessory
Pennsylvania State University researchers have used data analytics to identify a network of influence among major fashion designers and track how style trends move...
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A Common Logic to Seeing Cats and Cosmos
When in 2012 a computer learned to recognize cats in YouTube videos and just last month another correctly captioned a photo of "a group of young people playing...
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A Q&a With the Hackers Who Say They Helped Break Into Sony's Network
Lizard Squad. That's the hacker group whose name is suddenly on everyone's lips after it took credit for ruining Christmas for PlayStation and Xbox gamers everywhere...
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Google Lunar Xprize: Astrobotic's Rover Rakes in $750,000
It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.
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How To Change Your Past
"Too late" might be the two most tragic words in English, but what if you could rewind the clock?
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Are These the Five Craziest Space Missions?
The landing of the Philae Lander—on a comet travelling at 135,000km/h (84,000mph)—has been hailed as the start of a new chapter in space exploration.
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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In Search of Bayesian Inference
Long relegated to the statistical backburner, Bayesian Inference is undergoing a renaissance.
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Big Data Analysis Reveals Gene Sharing in Mice
Scientists have identified at least three cases of cross-species mating in "old world" mice that likely had an impact on their evolutionary paths.
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Downing North Korea's Internet Not Much of a Scalp
If someone did just knock North Korea off the Internet for half a day, it wouldn't have taken much.
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Sun Sizzles in High-Energy X-Rays
For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze back closer to home, capturing...
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The 12 Missions of Christmas
In July 1965, Mariner 4 became the first space probe to send back pictures of another world from space. Fifty years on, not only do several spacecraft orbit the...
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What Does a Cyber Counterattack Look Like?
President Barack Obama promised at his year-end news conference Friday that the U.S. will respond "proportionally" to North Korea's cyberattack against Sony Pictures...
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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Nyc Subways Slowly pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...
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The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
If and when we finally encounter aliens, they probably won't look like little green men, or spiny insectoids.
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Rosetta Orbiter to Swoop Down On Comet in February
The European Space Agency's orbiting Rosetta spacecraft is expected to come within four miles (six kilometers) of the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko...
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Is There a Cyber Security Equivalent of 'seal Team Six'?
When a cyber breach goes down…who you gonna call? Many different U.S. government agencies, it turns out.
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