Communications of the ACM
New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Robot Can Tidy Up Clothes in a Messy Bedroom
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
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Camera Stops Deepfakes at the Shutter
Built-in content credentials verifies photos' authenticity.
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How Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution
The company's C.E.O. bet it all on a new kind of chip. Now that Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world, what will he do next?
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A New Front Is Opening in the U.S.-China Chip Conflict
The ongoing conflict between the U.S. and China over semiconductor chip production is expected to ramp up as the U.S. seeks a competitive edge in advanced packaging...
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Drones with Defibrillators Are Saving Lives
Researchers found drones with automated external defibrillators arrived at the scene of a suspected cardiac arrest more than 3 minutes before ambulances in 67%...
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Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Windows Hello Implementations
Researchers found vulnerabilities in several laptop makers’ implementations of Windows Hello, the biometric login feature built into Windows.
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6G Could Pull Double Duty to Monitor Climate Change
Northeastern University researchers said over-the-air spectroscopy could enable next-generation 6G networks to monitor climate change and air pollution.
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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
Researchers say a majority of the world’s most popular websites put users and their data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards.
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Scientists Turn Invasive Carp into Traitors
Agencies are using "traitors" to find hotspot hideouts of invasive carp that are threatening the Great Lakes.
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Hackers Are Exploiting a Flaw in Citrix Software Despite Fix
Citrix Bleed, a critical flaw in Citrix Systems software, is being exploited by government-backed hackers and critical groups.
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South Korea Allows Autonomous Robots to Use Sidewalks
The South Korean government is allowing authorized autonomous robots to drive along the country's sidewalks.
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New Tool for Building and Fixing Roads and Bridges: Artificial Intelligence
In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, A.I. is being applied to the nation's aging infrastructure. Is that wise?
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You Paid $1,000 for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
The company codes its devices with software that complicates repairs by triggering safety warnings and malfunctions.
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Apple to Make It Easier to Text Between iPhones, Androids
Apple will adopt a technological standard next year that will allow text messaging to operate more smoothly between its iOS devices and Android devices.
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Are Cat Qubits the Key to Reliable Quantum Computing in the Modern Era?
Quantum computers are prone to errors due to the sensitivity of qubits to environmental noise. Can cat qubits help build fault-tolerant quantum computers?
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Tales of Topological Qubits
Emulating the behavior of exotic quantum states may give quantum computing a better way of squeezing out troublesome noise and errors.
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China Claims World's Fastest Internet
Huawei Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000-km (1,860-mile) Internet network linking Beijing to the south.
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Glasses Use Sonar, AI to Interpret Upper Body Poses in 3D
Cornell University researchers have developed a wearable device that uses inaudible soundwaves and artificial intelligence to track the user's upper body movements...
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Universities Train Engineers for the Quantum Future
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing...12