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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Opening the Black Box
Researchers hope to enable scientists and processor designers to understand the underlying reasoning of deep learning accelerator designs through explainable-design...
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AI Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat
Artificial intelligence (AI) operates the U.S. Air Force's pilotless XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental aircraft, which the military envisions as a next-generation robot...
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Google Algorithm Makes FIDO Encryption Safe from Quantum Computers
A post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithm developed by researchers at Google and Switzerland's ETH Zurich enables quantum-resistant encryption for FIDO2 security...
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Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next...
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Researchers Helping Robots Teach Themselves to Open Dishwashers, Doors
Scientists at Switzerland's ETH Zurich have formulated a "minimal manual guidance" model to train robots to learn how to open doors and dishwashers.
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UC San Diego Computer Scientists Tackle Annual Waste of 1.5 Billion Junked Smartphones
University of California, San Diego computer scientists have proposed a method for repurposing deactivated smartphones.
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Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners
The audio sounds like it's being played underwater. Still, it's a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can't speak.
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This Startup Engineered a Clever Way to Reuse Waste Heat from Cloud Computing
Heata is now using these busy servers to heat water for homes.
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Superconducting Device Could Dramatically Cut Energy Use in Computing, Other Applications
A simple superconducting device developed by MIT researchers could help achieve significant reductions in energy usage by high-power computing systems and potentially...
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Faster Spin Waves May Enable Magnonic Computing Systems
A team of scientists says it has solved the challenge of exciting spin waves with normalized amplitudes by exploiting a deeply non-linear phenomenon for forward...
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Data Centers at Risk Due to Flaws in Power Management Software
Cybersecurity researchers at Trellix have identified vulnerabilities in commonly used applications in data centers that could allow hackers to gain access and shut...
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People Rush to ATMs After Bank of Ireland IT Glitch
Bank of Ireland has fixed technical problems that allowed some customers to withdraw or transfer funds above what was in their accounts, it said Wednesday after...
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Reinventing Utopia: Self-Created Communities for the Digital Age
Jon Hillis is using digital technologies to create a network of self-generating co-living communities like Neighborhood Zero outside Austin, TX, to help decentralize...
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VR Headsets Are Vulnerable to Hackers
Computer scientists found hackers can translate the movements of virtual and augmented reality headset users into words using spyware and artificial intelligence...
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From Time Crystals to Wormholes: When Is a Quantum Simulation Real?
Physicists are using quantum computers to conjure exotic phenomena and claiming their creations are truly real.
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Pneumatic Computing Gains Air of Importance
The emergence of pneumatics as a computing tool could alter many fields and lead to new innovations.
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'Downfall' Flaw Exposes Valuable Data in Generations of Intel Chips
The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys...
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