Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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The Truth About the Turing Test
Alan Turing made many predictions about artificial intelligence, but one of his lesser known may sound familiar to those who have heard Stephen Hawking or Elon...
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The Web-Connected Car Is Cool, ntil Hackers Cut Your Brakes
When the history of the connected car is written, this week may go down as a pivotal moment for consumers worried about security.
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Decoding the Remarkable Algorithms of Ants
Ants are capable of remarkable feats of coordination.
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We Are Data: The Future of Machine Intelligence
I look at apps like Grindr and Tinder and see how they’ve rewritten sex culture—by creating a sexual landscape filled with vast amounts of incredibly graphic site...
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The Martian's Andy Weir Is All Buddy-Buddy with Nasa
When sci-fi author Andy Weir went to visit mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, the International Space Station was going through a crisis—an air leak...
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The Future, as Told By 'call of Duty: Black Ops 3'
If you've played just one first-person shooter game it was probably in the Call of Duty series.
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Pluto Is Just a Baby Step For Humankind
As it advances now beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is sending back data from its historic encounter with the dwarf planet like a long sigh of relief.
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Cli-Fi—That's Climate Fiction—Is the New Sci-Fi
Extreme weather events, changes in precipitation levels, species migration and extinction—climate change promises so many fun things. But why wait?
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The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2
Summer is one of the most dangerous times of the year on U.S. streets, as many of us spend more time behind the wheel, heading out for long road trips or local...
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A Team Member's View of All the Work on Earth It Took to Get New Horizons to Pluto
Science is hard and good science is harder—it takes persistence and tons of patience.
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Passing Pluto
Soon after the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto, at 7:49 A.M. on Tuesday—seventy-two seconds ahead of schedule, after a nine-and-a-half...
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How Worried Should You Be About Artificial Intelligence?
Intelligent machines come in myriad forms, so which ones pose a danger to us, and how likely are they to actually happen?
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The Reality of Cyberwar
When a series of technical glitches hit companies that ranged from United to the New York Stock Exchange this week, suspicions immediately ran to a cyber attack...
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The Social Security Number's Insecurities
In both the Anthem insurance hack and the two Office of Personnel Management hacks this year, attackers gained access to Social Security numbers, affecting 80 million...
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Google Search Chief Amit Singhal Talks Searching Apps
Amit Singhal, Google's search chief, has spent the past 15 years creating the miracle that is the Google search box.
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The Rise of the New Crypto War
James B. Comey, Jr., the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is afraid of the dark.
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Here Are the 12 Most Influential Programmers Working Today
The apps and games you use every day don't exist in a vacuum—someone, somewhere, wrote the code.
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