Communications of the ACM
Dialing the Trust Level Down to Zero
With cybersecurity under increasing attacks, experts say we should move to the Zero Trust Architecture.
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Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines.
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Malware Lets a Drone Steal Data By Watching a Computer's Blinking Led
A few hours after dark one evening earlier this month, a small quadcopter drone lifted off from the parking lot of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel.
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What News-Writing Bots Mean For the Future of Journalism
When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa's 4th congressional district seat in November, The Washington Post snapped...
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A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections For Millions of Devices
The VUSec team at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has demonstrated an exploit that undercuts a basic safeguard used in all modern operating...
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Physicists Teach AI to Identify Exotic States of Matter
Put a tray of water in the freezer. For a while, it's liquid. And then—boom—the molecules stack into little hexagons, and you've got ice.
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The AI Threat Isn't Skynet. It's the End of the Middle Class
In February 1975, a group of geneticists gathered in a tiny town on the central coast of California to decide if their work would bring about the end of the world...
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For the Next Election, Don't Recount the Vote. Encrypt It
Let's be honest: The 2016 election wasn’t a sterling display of American democracy.
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Google's Go-Playing Machine Opens the Door to Robots that Learn
Two robotic arms face two closed doors. Both reach forward and miss the door handles entirely.
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Wearables Could Soon Know You're Sick Before You Do
Consumer wearables, which track simple metrics such as step counts and heart rates, have the potential to provide actionable health data, according to Stanford...
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Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse By Making Chat a Game
Microsoft is buying a deep learning startup based in Montreal, a global hub for deep learning research.
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Darpa's Off-Roaders Ditch Windows For a Digital World View
Autonomous warriors may dominate the battlefield of tomorrow, but even those that still require human flesh will take on a robotic sheen. That shift could start...
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2016: The Year That Deep Learning Took Over the Internet
On the west coast of Australia, Amanda Hodgson is launching drones out towards the Indian Ocean so that they can photograph the water from above.
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon Into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn't run it.
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Hacker Lexicon: What Is Perfect Forward Secrecy?
Encryption keeps your secrets, until it doesn't.
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Google's Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results
Ask the Google search app "What is the fastest bird on Earth?," and it will tell you.
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...
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Intel Looks to a New Chip to Power the Coming Age of AI
Microsoft researchers recently built an artificially intelligent system that seems to recognize conversational speech as effectively as a human.
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream p Buildings
From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.
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