Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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An Interview with Juris Hartmanis
A pioneer in the field of computational complexity theory reflects on his career.
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Toward More Secure Software
Two proposals intended to reduce flaws in software use two very different approaches for software security.
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The Math of March Madness
The N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament started Thursday, but for most Americans the real action began days before, as they pored over brackets, competing to make...
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Reality Check: Comparing Hololens and Magic Leap
I've seen two competing visions for a future in which virtual objects are merged seamlessly with the real world.
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Why Some of Google's Coolest Projects Flop Badly
In public, companies try to trot out any hint of a success story—real or imagined. At SXSW this week, Google took a different tack: It talked all about its failures...
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Love in the Time of Bots
Convincing people to have a romantic relationship with a computer might be easier than it sounds.
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So Sayeth Google
Search for "vaccines." At least within our filter bubble, the top item in Google's "In the news" section earlier this week was an anti-vax column about the "feds'...
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'brutal Doom' Makes One of the Best Games Ever Made Even Better
I still measure every first-person shooter that's released today against the two decades-old Doom, or, more accurately, my memory of playing it as a tween.
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Teaching Robots to Be Moral
"Chappie," the highest-grossing movie in America last weekend, is, to put it mildly, not a great film; the critics have given it a twenty-nine on Rotten Tomatoes...
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Don't Edit the Human Germ Line
It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos will be published shortly.
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Finding Out What the Past Smelled Like
It was the smell that hit me first, a heady mixture of roasting meat, woodsmoke, and farmyard manure.
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How Apple's Embrace of the New sb Points to World Without Wires
Ready or not, Apple's new MacBook is cutting the computing industry's cables.
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The 12 Tech Nuisances That Annoy s Most
You know those days when your phone battery doesn't even make it to dinner?
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Here's What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official
Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened?
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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin
In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline.
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After Net Neutrality Vote, an ncertain Future For the Internet
Thursday, during a rancorous meeting of the Federal Communications Commission, the agencyvoted 3-2 to impose public utility regulations on Internet access providers...
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The World Loves the Smartphone. So How About a Smart Home?
My coffee maker is texting me again. It's scheduled to make coffee tomorrow, the message says, but I need to refill its water tank.
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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting...
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