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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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next...
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Octopus' Complex Cells Are Key to Their High Intelligence
Researchers explored the octopus's neural makeup that defines its learning processes using automated tissue preparation and new machine learning reconstruction...
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Researchers Helping Robots Teach Themselves to Open Dishwashers, Doors
Scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich have formulated a "minimal manual guidance" model to train robots to learn how to open doors and dishwashers.
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UC San Diego Computer Scientists Tackle Annual Waste of 1.5 Billion Junked Smartphones
University of California, San Diego computer scientists have proposed a method for repurposing deactivated smartphones.
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An AI Scans Eyes to Spot Parkinson's Years Before Diagnosis
Turns out the windows to the soul can teach us a lot about our own health.
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Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
The audio sounds like it's being played underwater. Still, it's a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can't speak.
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This Startup Engineered a Clever Way to Reuse Waste Heat from Cloud Computing
Heata is now using these busy servers to heat water for homes.
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Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Car Fleet in San Francisco After Crash
A driverless Cruise taxi with a passenger collided with a fire truck Thursday night, just one week after state officials allowed the service to expand.
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The Desperate Hunt for the A.I. Boom's Most Indispensable Prize
To power artificial intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordinary measures to obtain critical chips known as graphics processing units...
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ChatGPT Leans Liberal
Research by scientists at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia suggests OpenAI's ChatGPT has a liberal slant.
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Humanoid Robot Can Pilot an Airplane Better Than a Human
Engineers and researchers are developing a humanoid robot that can fly airplanes without requiring cockpit modifications.
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Google Tests AI Assistant That Offers Life Advice
Google is testing generative artificial intelligence technology programmed to serve as a life coach.
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Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications
A simple superconducting device developed by MIT researchers could help achieve significant reductions in energy usage by high-power computing systems and potentially...
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LLM Tool Finds and Remediates Software Vulnerabilities
Software company Vicarius unveiled vuln_GPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool that automatically identifies and repairs software vulnerabilities, at the...
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Computer Science Researchers Create Modular, Flexible Robots
Flexible robotic blocks developed by computer scientists at Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, and Yale University can be assembled into structures of different...
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ChatGPT Answers More than Half of Software Engineering Questions Incorrectly
ChatGPT answered 52% of 517 Stack Overflow questions incorrectly, and 77% of answers were unnecessarily wordy, according to a study by Purdue University researchers...
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