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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Technology Is Our Friend... Except When It Isn't
The technology in question starts with "gigapixel" photography. Gigapixel photos are giant panoramas that themselves consist of hundreds of component mega-pixel...
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Stanley Kubrick Envisioned the Ipad in '2001,' Says Samsung
Sometimes life really does imitate art. In the battle to compete with Apple's iPad, Samsung has channeled the spirit of Stanley Kubrick, the director of "2001...
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Attention to Detail, Noted in 313 Patents
When people in the technology industry speak of Steven P. Jobs’s knack for design, they often have Apple’s iconic products in mind: the early all-in-one Macintosh...
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'smart' Cctv Could Track Rioters
Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to recognise specific types of behaviour, such as someone holding a...
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Judge Says Warrant Required For Cell Phone Location Data
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some...
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Motorola
Hundreds of framed patents hang on two separate walls at the headquarters of Motorola Mobility in Libertyville, IL. They testify to the pride in innovation at...
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Court Says Only Hard Math Is Patentable
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a patent on a method of detecting credit card fraud. The result was unsurprising, but the...
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Face Recognition Technology Fails to Find U.k. Rioters
The response was as aggressive and swift as the riots themselves. Within a few hours of the worst of the looting across London and other English cities, attempts...
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Red-Light Cameras Throughout Nyc Are Bringing in $52 Million from Speedy City Drivers
Lights, cameras, cash. New York's driver nanny cams are working, generating more than $52 million in fines last year from unsuspecting motorists who blew through...
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A Bull Market in Tech Patents
Google was willing on Monday to pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility in no small part because of its stockpile of 17,000 patents. The patent portfolio, some...
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Remaking American Medicine
Developing an IT ecosystem for health could improve — and transform — the practice of medicine.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Bart Protests: San Francisco Transit Cuts Cellphones to Thwart Demonstrators; First Amendment Debate
San Francisco's BART—the Bay Area Rapid Transit system—has clashed with demonstrators again over a First Amendment issue: whether it can legally cut off cellphone...
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New Police Scanner Raises 'facial Profiling' Concerns
Beginning this fall, police officers across the nation will have a new weapon holstered onto their belts: A small attachment that weighs about 12 ounces turns...
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Sending the Police Before There's a Crime
The arrests were routine. Two women were taken into custody after they were discovered peering into cars in a downtown parking garage in Santa Cruz, Calif. One...
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MI5 Joins Social Messaging Trawl for Riot Organisers
Intelligence agency asked to crack encrypted messages—especially on BlackBerry Messenger—to help police.
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Millions of Web Pages Are Hacker Landmines
Some eight million web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the...
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When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong
A complex picture of your personal life can now be pieced together using a variety of public data sources, and increasingly sophisticated data-mining techniques...
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