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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Stephen Hawking: 'transcendence Looks at the Implications of Artificial Intelligence--But Are We Taking AI Seriously Enough?'
Today's advances in artificial intelligence research will pale in comparison to what the next decade will bring, write Stephen Hawking and several other scientists...
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building...
From ACM TechNews
Saving Crops and People With Bug Sensors
A new method of classifying insects could help protect crops from insect damage and limit the spread of insect-borne diseases.
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Will We Ever… Control the Weather?
With 2,000 drummers, 15,000 other performers and vast quantities of fireworks, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was a dazzling spectacle.
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Surveying African Cities Using Twitter
Researchers are using Twitter to help determine quantitative information on economic activity, population counts, and other measures in developing countries.
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Wiring of Retina Reveals How Eyes Sense Motion
A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion.
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Self-Assembly Required: One Scientist's Bid to Build Cancer-Killing Nanorobots
The term "cancer killing nanorobot" could conjure up all sorts of images, the best involving teeny tiny laser eyebeams.
From ACM TechNews
U.s. Domain Deregulation Could Fragment World Wide Web Into 'splinternet'
President Barack Obama's intention to relinquish U.S. control of domain name oversight has critics in an uproar.
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Giving Robots the Sense of Touch
Glasgow University researcher Ravinder Dahiya will spend the next four years developing ultra-flexible tactile skin for robotics and prosthetics.
From ACM Opinion
Eugene Kaspersky: Major Cyberterrorist Attack Is Only Matter of Time
A major, global cyberterrorist attack has long been the stuff of fiction, the threat that a malevolent hacker could bring down businesses, sabotage power plants...
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.
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Watch the Earth From Space, Live!
It doesn't get much better than this (well, of course being in space might be better, albeit colder).
From ACM TechNews
Standards For Computer Science Education Need Improvement
During the recent U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference, subject matter specialists issued a warning about the state of U.S. computer science education.
From ACM Opinion
Transcending Artificial Intelligence
While it can be a blast going to see the latest Hollywood sci-fi thriller, watching it along with a leading expert in the science and technology fields relevant...
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Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online
Whoever said, "Money can't buy you friends," clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently.
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Police Use New Tool to Source Crowds For Evidence
An annual spring party in a Southern California beach town devolved into a riot last month when revelers turned violent, rocking cars, smashing windows and throwing...
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Mind the Gap
Are there too few skilled computer and IT workers for the jobs available? If so, what can be done about it?
From ACM Opinion
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity
No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.
From ACM TechNews