Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Curiosity Finds An(other) Alien Visitor on Mars
The Curiosity rover has been on Mars since Aug. 6, 2012.
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How to Sit Courtside at a Basketball Game Without Leaving Your Couch
One of the promises that virtual reality offered was that we'd all be able to watch "courtside" sports games without having to leave our couches.
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Connected Devices Give Spies a Powerful New Way to Surveil
There is little doubt that the web is the greatest gift that any intelligence agency could have ever asked for.
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Just in Time For Trump, the Nsa Loosens Its Privacy Rules
As the privacy and civil liberty community braces for Donald Trump's impending control of US intelligence agencies like the NSA, critics have called on the Obama...
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My God. It's Full of Black Holes.
The image above doesn’t look like much at a glance, does it?
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At Ces 2017, You Have to Ask: What Makes a Robot a Robot?
Tall, small, dancing, singing, cleaning, sassy, silly, cute and scary—CES 2017 was awash with robots.
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10 Ways the Iphone Changed Everything
Ten years ago, Nokia was the world's largest phone maker. Microsoft was gearing up to launch Windows Vista. And the best new products at CES included a wireless...
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Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency; It's Something Way Weirder
The value of bitcoin surged past $1,000 this week, the first time it has reached such heights since late 2013.
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Why President Obama Won't Pardon Edward Snowden
On September 14, 2016, days before the premiere of Oliver Stone's hagiographic movieSnowden, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty...
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Don't Gut Net Neutrality. It's Good For People and Business
The invention and commercialization of the internet is one of the things that makes America great.
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Here's What Happens to Tech in 2017 (unless 2016 Was All a Dream)
What does 2017 hold for the world of tech and media?
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5 Big Predictions For Artificial Intelligence in 2017
Last year was huge for advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. But 2017 may well deliver even more.
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Quantum Computers Ready to Leap Out of the Lab in 2017
Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those technologies that are 20 years away, and always will be.
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Why frankenstein is Still Relevant, Almost 200 Years After It Was Published
Can I be totally honest? All I remember about Frankenstein is that Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster. What happens in it?
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The Biggest Security Threats Coming in 2017
Whether it was a billion compromised Yahoo accounts or state-sponsored Russian hackers muscling in on the US election, this past year saw hacks of unprecedented...
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Here's What a 'digital Miranda Warning' Might Look Like
Anyone who has ever watched an American crime movie or television show can practically recite the Miranda warning by heart, even if they don't know its official...
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How One Reporter Turned to His Readers to Investigate Donald Trump
David Fahrenthold's coverage of Donald Trump’s charities this year for The Washington Post stood out for its quality and depth. It also stood out the way he did...
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Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2017
If you've seen in it in a movie, you might see it in reality in 2017.
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Best Books of 2016
Our editors' picks for the best books of 2016, and some they're eagerly anticipating.
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