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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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Google Maps Trained S to Follow Directions. Now Its Former Developer Wants S to Explore.
It's not evident from the way his hair flops casually down and across, nor from his equally relaxed demeanor, but John Hanke is one of Google's most important idea...
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Research Shows Precisely Which Strategies Help Players Win Team-Oriented Video Games
A new technique can determine which strategies give players an advantage at multi-player, real-time strategy games.
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Nice Threads! Computer Scientists Develop New Model to Simulate Cloth on a Computer With Unprecedented Accuracy
A new model simulates the way cloth and light interact, making cloth look more realistic in animated movies and video games.
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More Connected Homes, More Problems
As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...
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Views You Can se? How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people—say, in the comments sections of websites?
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...
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Hive-Mind Solves Tasks Using Google Glass Ant Game
Swarm! is a game that connects Google Glass wearers to a virtual ant colony and asks them to solve real-world problems.
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Museums Go Mobile
Mobile apps are redefining and reinventing the modern museum, ushering in a new era of interactivity and immersion.
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Japan Sends Talking Robot Into Space as Part of Program to Help Lonely People
A talking robot is expected to reach the International Space Station in the next six days.
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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The Future of Graphics and Gaming
See the best new ideas in computer graphics and interaction from last week’s Siggraph conference.
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Google's Data-Trove Dance
In 2011, Google Inc. Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page asked executives to develop a new, simplified privacy tool that would act as a kind of sliding scale...
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Rethinking How We Watch Tv
To understand how much television could soon change, it helps to visit an Intel Corp. division here that runs like a startup.
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Jer Thorp: Data Artist, Question Farmer
Digital artist and designer Jer Thorp finds the art in data.
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Your Body Is the Computer
The last few years have presented an unprecedented shift in the computing world as PCs are being replaced with mobile devices. But now that a large portion of the...
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How Samsung Is Beating Apple in China
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...
From Communications of the ACM
A New Approach to Information Storage
Disk drives and solid-state drives have long served as the foundation for computer storage, but breakthroughs in molecular and DNA science could revolutionize the...
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Patient, Heal Thyself
New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare — but at what price?
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Touch Screen Ids sers via Fingerprints
Tabletop computers have not exactly taken the world by storm, as some predicted they would.
From ACM TechNews