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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U.S. Taps Tech Giants to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyberattacks
The Department of Homeland Security enlists Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others to help combat cyberthreats.
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Lost in L.A.? Fire Department Can Find You with What3words Location Technology
The Los Angeles Fire Department has partnered with digital location startup What3words, which has assigned a unique three-word name to each of 57 billion 10-foot...
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Amazon Sidewalk: What to Know before Sharing Your Home's Bandwidth
Live now and enabled by default, Sidewalk keeps other people's devices near your home connected by passing their signals through your Echo and Ring devices.
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Quic Gives the Internet's Data Transmission Foundation a Needed Speedup
Quic has been in public development for nearly eight years.
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William Shatner Turns 90, AI Version of Him will Live On Indefinitely
Shatner partners with StoryFile to create an interactive version of himself that answers fan questions and talks back to them.
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NTSB Asks NHTSA for More Self-Driving Car Rules, Citing Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Beta
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has requested tougher rules for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving car development.
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Half of Young Women Will Leave Their Tech Job by Age 35, Study Finds
A study found that half of young women who enter the tech workforce exit it by age 35.
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Online Voting Company Pushes to Make It Harder for Researchers to Find Security Flaws
The Voatz electronic-voting company argued in a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court that security researchers should only seek flaws in e-voting systems with...
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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Adds Facial Recognition Protection for Protesters
The Signal encrypted messaging app is introducing a blur tool to hide faces in photos before sharing them.
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Google Inks Deal with Defense Department to Help Respond to Cyberthreats
The contract is for "seven figures," Google says.
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NASA Created a Game That Lets You Help Map the Ocean's Coral Reefs
A new game can help map the ocean's diversity of coral reefs.
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How You'll Get Apple and Google's Contact Tracing Update for Your Phone
The tech giants say everyone will get access to the framework for tracking tools, regardless of which version of iOS or Android they use. Not everyone is convinced...
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Waymo Gamifies Self-Driving Car Data and Wants Everyone Involved
Waymo has expanded its Open Dataset and invited researchers to tackle one of five challenges related to the data.
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Your Laptop Can Help Fight COVID-19 With Folding@Home Project
Think of it as a telecommuter supercomputer.
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Coronavirus Highlights Strengths of Self-Driving Delivery Vehicles
With quarantines across China, one company is showing the usefulness of autonomous vehicles.
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This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking
Researchers have developed an app that will let users know what IoT technologies are operating in the immediate vicinity and what data they are collecting.
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Google Assistant on Android Devices Could Be Tricked Into Taking Photos, Videos
Researchers at cybersecurity company Checkmarx reported flaws in the Google Assistant on Android devices that would allow hackers to take photos and videos without...
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Hyundai Develops Next-Generation Noise Cancellation Technology
Hyundai researchers developed next-generation active noise cancellation (ANC) technology.
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U.S. Gives 3 States Grants for Self-Driving Car Research
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia its first three Automated Driving Systems Demonstration Grants to research and develop...
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