Communications of the ACM
Could Mobile Voting Ring True?
Voting on smartphones could result in higher voter turnouts.
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.
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Hamas and Israel Step p Cyber Battle For Hearts and Minds
Sites such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have been inundated with posts seeking to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the...
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Will Workplace Robots Cost More Jobs Than They Create?
The UK unveiled its robotics strategy last Tuesday, revealing a plan drawn up by the Technology Strategy Board that aims to spur the country on towards capturing...
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Rediscovered Plans Aid Edsac Reconstruction
The National Museum of Computing's reconstruction of an early British digital computer will benefit from the resurfacing of circuit diagrams of the machine.
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E-Voting Experiments End in Norway Amid Security Fears
Norway is ending trials of e-voting systems used in national and local elections.
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Mind-Control: 'i Drove a Car with My Thoughts'
Henrik Matzke is in the driving seat of a car, poised to make a very unusual manoeuvre.
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Female Tech Staff 'in Decline' in the U.k.
A new report finds the gender gap in the U.K. information technology industry is getting worse.
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How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You
Sometimes it's the promise of sex that fools you.
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Pixar to Give Away 'toy Story' 3D Renderman Software
Pixar plans to make a non-commercial version of RenderMan freely available to students, institutions, researchers, developers, and for personal use.
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Robots: Can We Trust Them with Our Privacy?
Joss Wright is training a robot to freak people out.
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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More Google 'forget' Requests Emerge After Eu Ruling
A man who tried to kill his family is among the latest to request removal of search results from Google.
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What Is the 'right to Be Forgotten'?
Sixteen years ago, a Spaniard named Mario Costeja Gonzalez had hit financial difficulties.
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Will We Ever… Control the Weather?
With 2,000 drummers, 15,000 other performers and vast quantities of fireworks, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was a dazzling spectacle.
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Half-Century Milestone For Ibm Mainframes
The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
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Comet Lander Checks In with Earth
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.
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