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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Monero, the Drug Dealer's Cryptocurrency of Choice, Is on Fire
For the cryptocurrency community, 2016 was a very good year.
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Neuroscience: Big Brain, Big Data
As big brain-mapping initiatives go, Taiwan's might seem small.
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The AI that Learns Our Habits and Knows When People Cheat
For people who play the video game Counter Strike online, it's hard enough watching your back at the best of times. In the fast-paced first-person shooter, there...
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D-Wave pgrade: How Scientists Are sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...
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US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search in Any Language
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), the US Intelligence Community’s own science and technology research arm, has announced it is seeking...
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Smart Automation
Researchers at the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology have spent the last several years developing autonomous...
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Hipeac Vision Report Advocates Reinvention of Computing
The European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation, or HiPEAC, on Monday published a report calling for "the reinvention of computing...
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Legal Battle Over Overseas Microsoft Data Could Be Headed For Supreme Court
A federal appeals court is letting stand a ruling in a closely watched case holding that Microsoft need not comply with a U.S. government demand for data stored...
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Noaa's Goes-16 Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for...
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The Road to Progress
Smarter roads will pave the way to a future with smoother, more efficient transportation.
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Military Program Produces Gadget That Detects Machinery from Behind a Concrete Wall
The U.K.'s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is based at a restricted military base in Porton Down, not far from the ancient monument of Stonehenge in southwest...
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Microbiologists Make Big Leap in Developing 'green' Electronics
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered a type of microbial nanowire that could help researchers develop sustainable conducting materials...
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Superfast Camera Sees Shock Wave from Light
A camera system that captures a snapshot of overlapping light waves in a tiny fraction of a second could lead to new methods for imaging, allowing scientists to...
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How to Learn Morse Code—semiconsciously
Learning Morse code, with its tappity-tap rhythms of dots and dashes, could take far less effort—and attention—than one might think.
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Researchers Build Carbon Nanotube Transistors That Outperform Those Made with Silicon
Researchers at Peking University in China say they have built a carbon nanotube-based working transistor that outperforms larger transistors made with silicon. ...
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Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat
Researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that twists and compresses in sync with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions compromised by...
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Secure Quantum Communications
Data locking experiments provide stepping stones to a possible future in quantum cryptography.
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Are Computer Chips the New Security Threat?
Security researchers have identified a technique for installing a backdoor on computer chips, a security flaw that could profoundly change the computing industry...
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What Better Way For the Marines to Prepare For Future Wars Than With Sci-Fi?
Lance Cpl. Steven West steps into a remote enemy hideout clad in a 350-pound exoskeleton, sensors piercing the darkness and displaying digital info on his helmet...
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