Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Meet Our Future Robosimian Heroes
Not all robots are built for war and destruction.
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Is Star Trek Tech Possible?
My friend Veronica Belmont is pretty cool. Nerd, writer, TV host… and now she’s doing an online video series with Engadget called "Dear Veronica," where she answers...
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Failure of New .s. Weapons Systems May Be More Than Science Fiction
A war between China and America is a favorite subject of armchair military analysts. Why would it happen? How would it play out?
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Calculating Pluto's Mass With Snapshots From New Horizons
As the New Horizons spacecraft is approaching Pluto, it's getting some great shots.
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Stephen Hawking Asks a Big Question of Mark Zuckerberg
Stephen Hawking woke up Tuesday morning and immediately summoned his handlers.
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Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling
It is such an exciting time to be a filmmaker.
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We Should Drop the Leap Second Before It Causes Real Damage
The latest leap second couldn’t have come at a worse time.
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How to Write About World War Iii
One of us first fought World War III from the backseat of a station wagon headed toward Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. For the other, it was at an island cabin on...
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Does a Multiverse Fermi Paradox Disprove the Multiverse?
Having just orbited our way through another summer solstice, it feels like time to let slip some more speculative ideas before the hot days of the northern hemisphere...
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That Time the CIA Bugged a Cat to Spy on the Soviets
My favorite story about American spying is one I've never been able to verify with the Central Intelligence Agency, and not for lack of trying.
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6 Reasons Why We're nderhyping the Internet of Things
Just when you thought the Internet of Things couldn't possibly live up to its hype, along comes a blockbuster, 142-page report from McKinsey Global Institute ("The...
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Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?
The gearheads in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart have mostly figured out how to build driverless vehicles. Even the Google guys seem to have solved the riddle.
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African Americans in the U.S. Computing Sciences Workforce
An exploration of the education-to-work pipeline.
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Preserving the Digital Record of Computing History
Reflecting on the complexities associated with maintaining rapidly changing information technology.
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Humans Are Tech's Next Big Thing—and That Could Be Risky
Internet companies make billions of dollars by capturing one of the world's most precious commodities: your attention.
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A Social Network For Talkers
No group needs social network software more than the elderly.
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Is Facial Recognition Tech Really a Threat to Privacy?
Facebook has decided not to offer its photo-sharing app Moments in Europe because of regulator concerns over its facial recognition technology.
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The Moment I Decided Robots Were As Interesting As Humans
When I was little, I was enamored with the idea of being a pioneer; I was drawn to the thought that I could be the first to do something—be a trailblazer, the forerunner...
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Intelligent Life in the niverse? Phone Home, Dammit!
We've been conditioned by television and movies to accept the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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