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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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity
No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.
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niv. of Central Florida Wins National Cyber Defense Competition
The University of Central Florida won the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition this past weekend in San Antonio.
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Cyborg Angst: 5 Ways Computers Will Perplex S in 2039
Brain chips mean we are struggling to distinguish our own thoughts from ideas implanted by advertisers.
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What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors
The U.S. needs more cyber warriors, and it needs them fast, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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Research Shows Smartphone Sensors Leave Trackable Fingerprints
Researchers have demonstrated that fingerprints exist within smartphone sensors because of imperfections during the hardware manufacturing process.
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Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars
The hacker in the Italian Job did it spectacularly.
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.
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Few Consumers Are Buying Premise of Mobile Wallets
Millions of Americans use smartphones for tasks like hailing a taxi or checking in for a flight. But for buying something in a store?
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Researcher Proposes Alert Tool For Managing Online Privacy Risks
A Princeton University professor has proposed the creation of a "privacy alert" system to help the average Internet user better manage their privacy.
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Cyber Insurance Is on the Rise
Companies are discovering traditional insurance policies may not cover the costs of privacy breaches and data loss.
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Supreme Court to Weigh Cellphone Searches
The Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone, in two appeals that could define the parameters of law enforcement...
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Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense...
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Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates
Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation...
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Homeland Security Struggles to Tempt, Retain Cyber Talent
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is struggling to hire cybersecurity experts.
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Supreme Court Takes on Privacy in Digital Age
Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
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Low-Level Federal Judges Balking at Law Enforcement Requests For Electronic Evidence
Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data...
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Microsoft, Google, Other Tech Giants nite to Prevent Next Heartbleed
Microsoft, Google, and other tech giants have committed to contribute more than $3 million to an initiative to improve open source software.
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Russia's Putin Calls the Internet a 'cia Project'
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares...
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