Communications of the ACM
Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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Facebook Now Has to Ask Permission to Track Your iPhone. Here's How to Stop It.
With the new iOS 14.5, apps have to seek your permission to track you. Here's what to tap, and two privacy settings to change immediately.
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Computer Modeling Suggests That T. Rex Was Slow Walker
Computer models created by researchers suggest the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex had a slow walking speed.
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A Driverless Tesla Crashed and Burned for 4 Hours, Killing 2 Passengers in Texas
Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which authorities said was operating without a driver, crashed into a tree in a Houston suburb on April 17.
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Reimagining Contact
Covid-19, which challenges how we interact with one another, is accelerating the development of touchless technologies.
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FTP is 50 Years Old
The 16th of April 1971 is not only the date when the Rolling Stone first released Brown Sugar, it is also marked with the publication of RFC 114 marking the birthday...
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Amazon Expanding 'Upskill' Training for Software Developer Roles to Workers Outside Company
Amazon is expanding its Amazon Technical Academy to train people outside the company for jobs in software engineering.
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NFTs Are Shaking Up the Art World. They May Be Warming the Planet, Too.
Digital artworks known as nonfungible tokens are selling for massive sums, but research indicates their creation may carry an enormous environmental cost.
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China's Factories Automate as Worker Shortage Looms
China's working-age population has dropped by more than 5 million in the last decade, and factories are responding to the resulting labor shortage with automation...
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Democratizing Facial Authentication
Intel's RealSense ID solution performs facial identification on device, not in the cloud.
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This Old Programming Language is Suddenly Getting More Popular Again
Apple's Objective-C finally exits the top 20 list of popular programming languages tracked by Tiobe, but a 'dinosaur' language has had an unexpected boost.
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New Hearing Aids, iPhone Apps, Tech Mean More Hearing-Loss Options--but Also New Struggles
The variety of low-cost products for people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss is expected to increase due to a new law.
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Google Wins Multibillion Dollar Copyright Fight With Oracle in Supreme Court
A lower court had ruled that Google's Android operating system infringed Java copyrights held by Oracle.
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How Fortnite, Zelda Can Up Your Surgical Game (No Joke!)
Researchers suggest video games could be a beneficial tool for training surgeons.
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If You Care About Privacy, It's Time to Try a New Web Browser
A new crop of Internet browsers from Brave, DuckDuckGo, and others offer stronger privacy protections than what you might be used to.
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Vaccination Megasites Lean on Enterprise Tech to Keep the Line Moving
Popup Covid-19 vaccination megasites are using digital enterprise technology to accommodate surging numbers of inoculations as more Americans qualify to be immunized...
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New Software Vendor Standards Coming Within Weeks, CISA Head Says
The White House is leading an interagency effort focused on software development that will determine federal procurement of information technology.
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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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DARPA's Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
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