Communications of the ACM
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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MIT ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.
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Nsa Advisory Sparks Concern of Secret Advance shering in Cryptoapocalypse
In August, National Security Agency officials advised US agencies and businesses to prepare for a not-too-distant time when the cryptography protecting virtually...
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How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...
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How Soviets sed IBM Selectric Keyloggers to Spy on S Diplomats
A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's...
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...
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Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...
From ACM Careers
Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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Shock European Court Decision: Websites Are Liable For sers' Comments
In a surprise decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has ruled that the Estonian news site Delfi may be held responsible for anonymous...
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Oculus Rift Hack Transfers Your Facial Expressions Onto Your Virtual Avatar
When Facebook bought Oculus VR back in March of 2014, many wondered exactly what the social network was going to do with it; let's face it, many of us are still wondering...
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Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...
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Project Elysium Wants to se Vr to Revive Deceased Loved Ones
How far is too far when it comes to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality?
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work—and Gets Past the 'glassholes'
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.
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Machine Consciousness: Big Data Analytics and the Internet of Things
During my visit to General Electric's Global Research Centers in San Ramon, California, and Niskayuna, New York, last month, I got what amounts to an end-to-end...
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
From ACM Opinion
Surveillance-Based Manipulation: How Facebook or Google Could Tilt Elections
Someone who knows things about us has some measure of control over us, and someone who knows everything about us has a lot of control over us.
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Secrets Become History: Edward Snowden in Citizenfour Wins Documentary Oscar
Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.
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If Software Looks Like a Brain and Acts Like a Brain—will We Treat It Like One?
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.
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