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Quantum Annealing Can Beat Classical Computing in Limited Cases
Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time… From ACM TechNewsAn 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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New Nasa Tech Kills Trespassing Drones Without Touching Them
In the most nightmarish drone scenarios, one of the little whirlybirds flies into an airliner, or wanders into military airspace, or swoops down on the White House...
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To End Distracted Driving, Mit Figures Out How People Really Drive
Researchers are producing accurate models of people's behavior in cars, in order to shape that behavior to preserve safety.
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab For Cyberwar
The clocks read zero when the lights went out.
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Facebook Teaches Bots How to Negotiate. They Learn to Lie Instead
Newly released code purportedly will enable bots to negotiate.
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The Pentagon Looks to Videogames For the Future of War
The first real computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1946. The first computer war game appeared two years later.
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Everything We Know About Russia's Election-Hacking Playbook
Just when the cybersecurity world thinks it's found the limits of how far Russian hackers will go to meddle in foreign elections, a new clue emerges that suggests...
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An IBM Breakthrough Ensures Silicon Will Keep Shrinking
The limits of silicon have not been reached quite yet.
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Banned From the s? There's a Robot For That
Two telepresence robots roll into a human-computer interaction conference.
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Russian Hackers Are sing 'tainted' Leaks to Sow Disinformation
Over the past year, the Kremlin's strategy of weaponizing leaks to meddle with democracies around the world has become increasingly clear, first in the US and more...
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A Chinese Genome Giant Sets Its Sights on the itimate Sequencer
The world's largest genetics research center isn't at Harvard or Stanford or even the NIH. It's a 20-mile drive from Hong Kong International Airport, in the bustling...
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Google's AI Invents Sounds Humans Have Never Heard Before
Google researchers have found a way to use artificial intelligence to produce entirely new sounds.
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The Bizarre Quantum Test That Could Keep Your Data Secure
Researchers have been testing the existence of quantum entanglement for several years.
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Charles Babbage Left a Computer Program in Turin in 1840. Here It Is.
In autumn of 1840, Charles Babbage arrived in Turin for a meeting of Italian scientists, where he gave the only public explanation of the workings of his "Analytical...
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How Nasa Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Really Seeing Them
Everyone likes a good space photo.
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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Inside the Hunt For Russia's Most Notorious Hacker
On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election, Tillmann Werner was sitting down...
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How the Cia's Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure
When Wikileaks yesterday released a trove of documents purporting to show how the CIA hacks everything from smartphones to PCs to smart televisions, the agency's...
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.
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