Communications of the ACM
Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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How Safe is a Quantum-Safe Virtual Private Network?
Verizon aims to find out by testing the technology, which is geared at enhancing encryption methods using session key exchange security mechanisms, the carrier...
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Google to Release DeepMind's StreetLearn for Teaching Machine Learning Agents to Navigate Cities
Google is preparing a November release of its DeepMind unit's StreetLearn dataset for training machine learning models to navigate cities without a map.
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Cybersecurity Researchers Claim Every Network Router at Risk of Secretly Leaking Data
Researchers have demonstrated a method for stealing information by exploiting a network router's light-emitting diodes.
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Online Tracking By News Organizations Is Excessive, Say Researchers
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that news organizations permit far more use of third-party tracking than the average website.
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Angelica Lim: Flutist. Global Roboticist. Proud Master of a Robot Dalmatian Named Sparky.
Angelica Lim, a "developer on emotion recognition" on the Pepper robot at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris, specializes in building robots that can express emotions. ...
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee: The Hidden Cost of Mass Surveillance
Sir Tim Berners-Lee this week discussed the need for governments to end mass online surveillance.
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