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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Study: Only 18% of Data Science Students Are Learning AI Ethics
Only 15% of university instructors and professors surveyed are teaching artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, and just 18% of students say they are learning about...
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Researchers Discover How to Pinpoint a Malicious Drone Operator
Researchers at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have learned to identify the location of a potentially malicious aerial drone operator operating near...
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ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee Urges Supreme Court to Narrowly Interpret Computer Fraud Act
ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee Thursday filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the court to narrowly interpret the Computer Fraud...
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Google Fixes Smartwatch Security Problem
Google corrected a security vulnerability in its Wear OS smartwatches that could have allowed attackers to crash applications, render the app or the watch unresponsive...
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Bio-Ink for 3-D Printing Inside the Body
Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a bio-ink that can be three-dimensionally printed at human body temperature, and solidified using visible...
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NSF Reveals First Details on Foreign-Influence Investigations
The U.S. National Science Foundation has taken action in 16-to-20 individual cases, most involving "very well-known academics," in which foreign ties were not properly...
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AI's Carbon Footprint Problem
A new tool measures the hidden cost of machine learning.
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National Security Agency Warns That VPNs Could Be Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
A cybersecurity advisory issued by the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate warns that virtual private networks may be vulnerable to cyberattacks...
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Recyclers Turn to Robots After Waste Import Bans
Waste import bans have prompted many companies to use robotic technologies to enhance their processing capabilities.
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What's Contributing to the Striking Gender Gap in the AI Field?
A new study quantified predictors of whether women will choose careers in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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A Plan to Make Police Data Open Source Started on Reddit
The Police Data Accessibility Project aims to request, download, clean, and standardize public records that right now are overly difficult to find.
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Harvard and M.I.T. Sue to Stop Trump Visa Rules for Foreign Students
Universities opposed a policy that would require students to take at least one in-person class or be denied permission to study in the U.S.
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Uncovered: 1,000 Phrases That Incorrectly Trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant
Researchers have identified more than 1,000 word sequences that incorrectly trigger voice assistants like Alexa, Google Home, and Siri.
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Home Security Camera Wi-Fi Signals Can be Hacked to Tell When People Are Home
Scientists in the U.K. and China have demonstrated exploits of Internet-connected security camera uploads that allows hackers to learn whether homes are occupied...
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System Combines Smartphone Videos to Create 4D Visualizations
Carnegie Mellon University researchers combined iPhone videos shot "in the wild" by separate cameras to produce four-dimensional visualizations.
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How AI Helps Historians Solve Ancient Puzzles
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are helping historians restore or recreate archaeological artifacts from photos of fragments.
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Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots
Duke University researchers have proposed a new approach for coordinating complex tasks between hundreds of robots while satisfying logic-based rules.
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Study Shows Consumer Excitement For Drones, Self-Driving Vehicles Has Grown Amid Pandemic
Study finds 26% of consumers now view autonomous delivery technologies more favorably
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Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web
The Internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable.12