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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You Aren't Good Enough to Win Money Playing Daily Fantasy Football
Every first-time player of daily fantasy football begins the new season undefeated, just like even the most hopeless NFL teams.
From ACM Opinion
sing Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.
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Putin vs. the Internet: The Laws That Matter
A new law in force in Russia from Sept. 1 is intended to force foreign Internet firms to maintain local servers to handle data on Russian citizens.
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Tired of Memorizing Passwords? A Turing Award Winner Came p With This Algorithmic Trick
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Manuel Blum believes online passwords can be made more secure by creating what he calls "human computable" passwords.
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Visualizing the Complex, Invisible Web of Wireless Signals that Surround S
As we wander through buildings and streets, restaurants and universities, countless signals are buzzing around our heads, so silent and invisible we forget they...
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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere have met with European officials about proposals to regulate...
From ACM TechNews
Why the World's Top Computing Experts Are Worrying About Your Data
Many of the world's top computer science experts met last week to determine how the widespread collection of data about consumers can be prevented from causing...
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.s. Court Rules For Government Over Nsa Metadata Collection Program
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out a judge's ruling that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting phone metadata under a controversial...
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Tool Makes It Easier to Evade Online Censors
After the huge chemical explosion in Tianjin, China, this month, two cleanup efforts began.
From ACM Careers
Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...
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Court Says the Ftc Can Slap Companies For Getting Hacked
For companies like the dating site Ashley Madison or the health insurer Anthem, financial loss, customer anger and professional embarrassment aren't the only consequences...
From ACM Opinion
How Close Are We Really to a Robot-Run Society?
From Rosie, the Jetsons' robot maid, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg in The Terminator, popular culture has frequently conceived of robots as having a human-like...
From Communications of the ACM
Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
From Communications of the ACM
Sensing Emotions
How computer systems detect the internal emotional states of users.
From Communications of the ACM
New News Aggregator Apps
How apps like Inkl and SmartNews are overcoming the challenges of aggregation to win over content publishers and users alike.
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Google Ordered to Remove Links to Stories about Google Removing Links to Stories
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...
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Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...
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How Apple's Force Touch Could Change the Way You se Your Next Iphone or Ipad
Pressure-sensitive screens, haptic feedback: Why should you care?
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
From ACM TechNews