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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Decade-Old Bugs Discovered in Avast, AVG Antivirus Software
Researchers at cybersecurity software company SentinelOne reported two high-severity bugs in Avast and AVG antivirus products that have gone undetected for a decade...
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Clearview AI Settles Suit, Agrees to Limit Sales of Facial Recognition Database
The facial recognition software maker is largely prohibited from selling its database of photos to private companies.
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V.R. 'Reminiscence Therapy' Lets Seniors Relive the Past
Some care facilities are giving older adults a way to visit their pasts to boost their well-being.
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Pandemic Exposed Mental Health Divide Among College Students, Study Finds
Dartmouth College researchers found that smartphone technology and artificial intelligence could be employed as an "early detection system" for mental health issues...
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Predicting Others' Behavior on the Road With Artificial Intelligence
A new machine learning system may someday help driverless cars predict the next moves of nearby drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists in real-time.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft Want to Kill the Password with 'Passkey' Standard
Apple, Google, and Microsoft are launching a "joint effort" to "expand support for a common password-less sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the...
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Researchers Use AI to Detect Weak Heart Pump via Patients' Apple Watch ECGs
A new artificial intelligence algorithm can identify patients with weak heart pumps based on single-lead ECG tracings from an Apple Watch.
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Automatic Audio Loggers Map the Sound of Norway
Audio recorders have reliably identified birds in Norwegian forests by their songs.
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Digital Twins Aid Giving Individual Patients the Right Treatment at the Right Time
An international team of researchers has modeled digital twins of diseases, in order to improve diagnosis and treatment.
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Two Papers Selected to Receive 2022 Dijkstra Prizes
Together, the papers revolutionized both the theory and practice of nonblocking algorithms.
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David Walden, Computer Scientist at Dawn of Internet, Dies at 79
In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet.
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Meta Has Built a Massive New Language AI—and It's Giving It Away for Free
Facebook's parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3.
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How Millions of Russians are Tearing Holes in the Digital Iron Curtain
A tremendous surge in VPN downloads represents a challenge to Putin and his version of the Ukraine war.
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Women in Computer Science Strives for Community, Professional Growth
Co-faculty advisor Mary Lauren Benton said she thinks more female role models are needed in the field to encourage women to believe computer science is a viable...
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Mission to Monitor Migrating Monarchs
University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a tracking system to monitor the migration of monarch butterflies to specific mountain peaks in central Mexico...
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Interactive Tools May Help People Become Big Data Journalists
Researchers say people could use interactive tools to navigate, save, and tailor online content to extract meaning from big data.
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Swarming Drones Autonomously Navigate Dense Forest, Chase Human
Researchers in China demonstrated the ability of an autonomous flying drone swarm to navigate a thick forest it had never before encountered.
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Gear from Netgear, Linksys, 200 Others Has Unpatched DNS Poisoning Flaw
Researchers at security firm Nozomi Networks identified an unpatched vulnerability in third-party code libraries used by 200 hardware and software vendors.
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How Can Universities Help Close the Digital Divide?
Institutions are leading projects with community partners to expand high-speed Internet access.
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