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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'Soft' Biometrics Is the New Way to Monitor People
Cameras are strewn around our environment, catching glimpses of our faces everywhere we go, yet even the best facial recognition technology still has a hard time...
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Scientists Seek Other Scientists For Cosmology Problem
How do you measure something that is invisible?
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Wikimedia Foundation Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Wikipr
On October 21, the Wikimedia Foundation issued a statement from Sue Gardner, our executive director, condemning the black hat practice of paid advocacy editing...
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Google Books Ruling Is a Huge Victory For Online Innovation
It's taken almost a decade, but the courts have finally handed down a ruling on Google's audacious project to scan millions of books to build a book search engine...
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Facebook Releases Query Engine to Open Source Community
Facebook has developed Presto, a distributed SQL query engine optimized for running ad-hoc interactive analytic queries against data sources ranging in size from...
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Intelligence Agency Seeks Facial Recognition pgrade
The U.S. intelligence community is pushing a leap forward in facial recognition software that will enable it to determine better the identity of people through...
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The Head of Google X Thinks We're All Too Risk-Averse
Google X is responsible for some of Google's most literally fantastic projects: Google Glass, self-driving cars, gigantic inflatable balloons that beam Internet...
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues
Encryption is one of the most important ways to safeguard data from prying eyes.
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
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Why Google's Rapid Growth Means Faster Search
USC has released a study showing that Google search has greatly expanded and increased in speed over the past 10 months. Google search has increased by about 600...
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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Brain Decoding: Reading Minds
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...
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'running Battle': How Google Hopes to Beat Countries Cracking Down on Internet Freedom
Google hopes a little browser tool will help change the world.
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Future-Proof Encryption
Researchers are relying on quantum mechanics to generate unhackable methods of communication.
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More Than a Mouse
Gesture and gaze are among the newest additions to a growing family of computer interfaces.
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This Algorithm Can Predict Your Success At niversity
In a large university full of lecture classes, it can be hard to pinpoint the students who are falling through the cracks.
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