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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Mind-Reading Devices Are Revealing the Brain's Secrets
Brain-computer interfaces are helping researchers learn more about brain anatomy.
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Spying on Security Cameras Through Walls
Northeastern University researchers have developed a way to access video feeds from home security, dashboard, and smartphone cameras through walls.
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ISS Gets SSD Upgrade
Hewlett Packard's HPE Edgeline EL4000 and the HPE DL360 Gen10 server on the International Space Station have been upgraded with Kioxia's M.2 and SAS SSDs.
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Scientists Find Optimal Balance of Data Storage and Time
Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it.
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Researchers Design Processor from DNA
A microfluidic DNA processor is capable of computation and reading and writing data stored within DNA.
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Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase-Change Memory
Researchers developed a nanocomposite superlattice phase-change memory device.
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Japan Bids Sayonara to the 3.5" Floppy Disk
Japan's rules for the submission of official documents to the government no longer mention physical media like floppy disks, CD-ROMs, or other "electronic recording...
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Virtual Reality as Therapy
Leveraging precisely designed alternate realities as therapeutic tools.
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NVMe Consortium Polishes Its Specs to Support Computational Storage
The NVM Express (NVMe) consortium has established a standardized method for applications to talk to storage devices with processing capabilities.
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Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
Three researchers have found a long-sought way to pull information from large databases secretly. If the process can be streamlined, fully private browsing could...
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Data Stuffed into Diamond Cavities
Researchers at the City College of New York developed a technique that allows diamonds to be used for optical storage under cryogenic conditions.
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Epigenomics Now
Computer power helps biologists track the regulation of genetic information.
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Wayfinding Without GPS
Quantum entanglement provides a new direction in navigation.
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Multiple Data Leaks at 23andMe
Stolen genetic data leads to class action suit against the testing firm.
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Samet Honored with ACM SIGSPATIAL Lifetime Impact Award
Hanan Samet was honored with the inaugural Lifetime Impact Award from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL).
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Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
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News Group Says A.I. Chatbots Heavily Rely on News Content
The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that A.I. chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online.
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Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as Cloud Storage Solution
Microsoft said its Project Silica glass media storage technology can retain roughly 1.75 million songs or about 3,500 movies on a palm-sized glass sheet for 10,000...
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An Exabyte of Disk Storage at CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has exceeded the 1-exabyte threshold, amassing 1 million terabytes (TB) of disk space.
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