Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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How Movies and Tv Give Life to the Mundane Text Message
In the last decade, movies and television have sprouted a new plot weakness: if tension hinged in any way on a situation that could have been solved by a simple...
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Science Inches Closer to Real Bioshock-Style Plasmids
Synthetic success. That's not to say that customized transposons are limited to the hypothetical.
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Ios 7, Thoroughly Reviewed
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.
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Why Intel Bought Mcafee
There's been quite a bit of head-scratching over Intel's decision to purchase McAfee, but, despite all the breathless talk about mobile security and ARM and virus...
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Sociologists Invade World of Warcraft, See Humanity's Future
In their continued quest to plumb the mysterious depths of human interactions, some sociologists have stopped watching people—and started watching their avatars...
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