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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A Q&a With the Hackers Who Say They Helped Break Into Sony's Network
Lizard Squad. That's the hacker group whose name is suddenly on everyone's lips after it took credit for ruining Christmas for PlayStation and Xbox gamers everywhere...
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How To Change Your Past
"Too late" might be the two most tragic words in English, but what if you could rewind the clock?
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New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed By Digital Devices
University of California, Berkeley researchers say they have made the first direct observation of a phenomenon known as "negative capacitance."
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6 Technologies that Will Change Pcs in 2015
Six disruptive technologies could change the face of computing in 2015.
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Data Brokers Are Watching You
You would be surprised by how much they know about you, and what they are doing with your information.
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Automated code or bots currently account for 56 percent of all of website visits, and a recent analysis of 20,000 websites found bot traffic can run as high as...
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Smart Transportation Networks Drive Gains
Transportation engineers and city planners are looking to information technology to redefine traffic management in urban areas. With the opportunity, however, comes...
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Better Software Cuts Computer Energy se
The ENTRA project aims to develop tools to help software engineers create energy-efficient code.
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6 Aging Protocols That Could Cripple the Internet
The biggest threat to the Internet is that it evolved over time with various protocols, very few of which were designed with security in mind.
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First Steps For Hector the Robot Stick Insect
Bielefeld University researchers have developed Hector, a robot based on a stick insect that has passive elastic joints and an ultralight exoskeleton.
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In One Aspect of Vision, Computers Catch p to Primate Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have found the most recent version of deep neural networks match the primate brain.
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Google Seeks Partners For Self-Driving Car
Google is seeking auto industry partners in its efforts to produce a fully autonomous car.
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Nyc Subways Slowly pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...
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How to Fool a Computer With Optical Illusions
Computers, like people, understand what they see in the world based on what they've seen before.
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Forget Passwords, a Student Research Team Wants You to Log in By Speaking a Sentence
Student researchers at California State University, Fullerton are developing new biometric security technologies, including those based on facial recognition, fingerprints...
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Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web
Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations.
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Amputee Simultaneously Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Mind
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...
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Thought Control Makes Robot Arm Grab and Move Objects
A woman paralysed from the neck down can now grab a ball with a robotic arm—just by thinking about it.
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ndersea Robot Explores Life Below Arctic Ice
While 2014 has not been kind to rockets, it has been a banner year for robots of all stripes.
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