Communications of the ACM
New 50-pound British Banknote Honors Computer Pioneer Alan Turing
The choice of Turing for the new 50-pound note is an important symbol of diversity.
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Google Totally Changing How Ads Track People Around the Internet
The Internet giant is throwing tracking cookies in the dustbin, prompting big questions about privacy, competition, and advertising.
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Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander
The search giant is changing its algorithm, part of a major shift in how Google polices harmful content.
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Ohio Files Lawsuit to Declare Google a Public Utility
The complaint alleges Google's "self-preferencing Results-page architecture" resulted in nearly two-thirds of Google searches in 2020 being completed without users...
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Semantics Beats Syntax
IBM, Google, and Microsoft are all developing algorithms that understand the meaning of words.
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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Sophisticated, dangerous ransomware is the new normal … and there is no simple fix.
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The Best of NLP
Natural language processing delves more deeply into its knowledge gap.
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Hackers Exploit Websites to Give Them Excellent SEO Before Deploying Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have found hackers are using search engine optimization to push compromised websites higher up Google's rankings.
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Google to Stop Tracking Users for Targeted Ads
Google says it will no longer track users across Internet searches to sell targeted advertising, and will not build alternative user-tracking models.
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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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TLDR: This AI Sums Up Research Papers in a Sentence
Software called TLDR (too long, didn't read) automatically produces one-sentence abstracts of research papers.
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Technologies for the Visually Impaired
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
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Tracking COVID, Discreetly
Tracing the contacts of those who come into contact with the coronavirus is not that simple.
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U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
A victory for the government could remake one of America's most recognizable companies and the internet economy that it has helped define.
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Virtual Collaboration in the Age of the Coronavirus
Videoconferencing apps took off during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but more efficient ways to collaborate virtually are waiting in the wings.
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