Communications of the ACM
Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
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Bitcoin Mining Used More Water Than New York City Last Year
A study found that water use by bitcoin miners hit 591 billion gallons so far this year, up from 415 billion gallons in 2021.
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2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for Hardware
An international team developed a monolithic three dimensional integrated chip comprised of layered two-dimensional materials.
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Drones Protect Wind Turbines from Ice
Researchers developed a method to protect wind turbines from ice using drones.
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DARPA-Funded Research Leads to Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Harvard-led team develops novel logical qubits to enable scalable quantum computers.
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IBM's 'Condor' Quantum Computer Has More Than 1,000 Qubits
IBM has revealed two quantum computers. One is the second-largest ever made, and the other produces fewer errors than any quantum computer the company has built...
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The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI
The companies had honed a protocol for releasing artificial intelligence ambitiously but safely. Then OpenAI's board exploded all their carefully laid plans.
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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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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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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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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook
Meta's goal is to get more people to use more of its apps and to monetize those people to the greatest extent possible.
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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...
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How Quantum Computing Can Benefit Drug Discovery
Quantum computing aims to reduce cost and time.
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Centimeter-Scale Quadruped Leverages Curved-Crease Origami
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a centimeter-scale quadruped robot inspired by origami.
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Researchers Develop Solid-State Thermal Transistor for Better Heat Management
A solid-state thermal transistor enables precision control of heat movement in semiconductor devices using the on-off switching of an electric field.
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Magnetic Sensors Pinpoint GPU Cryptojacking Attacks
Identifying incursions with magnetic sensors.
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