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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Tracking Shoppers
Retailers of all stripes are using technology to follow consumers through their brick-and-mortar stores in order to develop detailed profiles of their shopping...
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Dark Web's Doppelgängers Aim to Dupe Antifraud Systems
Digital doppelgängers that fool online payment fraud detection systems are a threat to your bank balance.
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Learning to Trust Quantum Computers
They need to show us they can solve the biggest problems.
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Bundesliga, Amazon Want to Predict What Happens Next
Germany’s Bundesliga professional football (soccer) league is making Amazon its official technology provider, providing statistics (among other things) for the...
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Grindr, OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says
Online dating services are spreading personal user information in ways that may violate privacy laws in Europe and elsewhere.
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Finding a Good Read Among Billions of Choices
MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new text-analysis method for rapidly narrowing down reading material from billions of online options.
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How Classroom Technology Is Holding Students Back
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
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Multiplication Hits the Speed Limit
A problem "around since antiquity" may have been resolved by a new algorithm.
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The Longest Yard in Football
The National Football League is starting to use tracking technology that can distinguish exact distances and measure the value of a single inch, which could dramatically...
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World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds with Linux
The latest Top500 supercomputer ratings found the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit system topping the list with a High-Performance Linpack benchmark of 148...
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Natural Language Interface for Data Visualization Debuts
VisFlow is a framework that even novices can use to create highly flexible visualizations from almost any data.
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Real-World Applications for Drones
Unmanned vehicles have a number of compelling real-world use cases.
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When Drones Fly
Drone technology is poised to enter the mainstream of business and society, but engineering robust controls remains a challenge.
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Information Is Physics
Individual bits of information can have direct physical consequences.
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Google Draws House Antitrust Scrutiny of Internet Protocol
Congressional antitrust investigators are vetting Google's plans to use a new Internet protocol out of worry it could limit competitors' access to consumer data...
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Closing In on Quantum Error Correction
Quantum computers will only become practical when they implement quantum error correction.
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AI Learns to Defy Laws of Physics to Win at Hide-and-Seek
Scientists at the OpenAI artificial intelligence laboratory developed bots that trained themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek.
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Can You Locate Your Location Data?
Smartphone apps offering location data services may be desirable, but their ability to collect personal data that can be sold to third parties is less attractive...
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An Inability to Reproduce
Big data and modern analytics offer enormous possibilities for research, provided scientists can produce consistent results.
From ACM TechNews