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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
From ACM Opinion
If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
From ACM News
Do You Only Trust Wall-E Because He's Cute?
Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.
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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days
Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears...
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Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn't seem particularly ambitious.
From ACM TechNews
Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
From ACM TechNews
Addressing the Human Brain's Big Data Challenge With Brainx3
Researchers have developed BrainX3, a platform for visualizing, simulating, analyzing, and interacting with massive amounts of data.
From ACM TechNews
Heavy Smartphone Use Linked to Lower Intelligence
New research from the University of Waterloo suggests a link between heavy smartphone use and lower intelligence.
From ACM Careers
Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.
From ACM News
Dig This: I Operated a Giant Excavator from 2,500km Away
Thanks to Ericsson, I can check off operating heavy machinery from my bucket list.
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.
From ACM TechNews
Flexible Sensors Turn Skin Into a Touch-Sensitive Interaction Space For Mobile Devices
Researchers working on the iSkin project are studying the potential use of the human body as a touch-sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
From ACM TechNews
Sc15 Chair on Hpc Transforms, Diversity Outreach, and Austin
In an interview, Jackie Kern, general chair of the SC15 conference, shares her agenda for the year and plans for the event.
From ACM TechNews
Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Young children can use a new program to teach a humanoid robot how to write letters and improve their writing skills at the same time.
From ACM News
A Robot That Collapses nder Pressure (in a Good Way)
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
John is in the playground. Bob is in the office. Where is John?
From ACM TechNews
New Technology Could Cut Costs of Night Vision, Thermal Imaging
Researchers say they have developed semiconductor technology that could make night vision and thermal imaging affordable for everyday use.
From ACM TechNews
Mozilla Tackles Parallel Javascript
Mozilla wants to bring parallelism to JavaScript in an attempt to fully leverage hardware capabilities.
From ACM TechNews