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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Raspberry Pi Heads For the Open Ocean
Confronted with that tiny device, some have seen a way to play old arcade games, as a media server or to monitor their sleeping children. There are some that have...
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Meet Yeti, the South Pole's Crevasse-Detecting Robot
Continental glaciers are interesting for all kinds of reasons. Ask the National Science Foundation, and it will likely tell you that drilling into the Greenland...
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Big Data Roadblocks Will Slow Driverless Cars ntil 2040, Analyst Says
Despite aggressive predictions on the time frame for mainstream adoption of driverless cars due to progress in autonomous vehicle technology, some experts say privacy...
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Cyberwar Manual Lays Down Rules For Online Attacks
Even cyberwar has rules, and one group of experts is putting out a manual to prove it.
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Smartphones Are Reinventing—and Ditching—the Keyboard
In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.
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When 'likes' Can Shed Light
Patterns of "Likes" posted by people on Facebook can unintentionally expose their political and religious views, drug use, divorce, and sexual orientation, researchers...
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Mind Plus Machine
Behind a locked door in a white-walled basement in a research building in Tempe, Ariz., a monkey sits stone-still in a chair, eyes locked on a computer screen.
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U.s. Drones Fail to Identify Blind Spots of Iran's Radar Systems
A senior Iranian lawmaker lauded the country's Armed Forces for their vigilance and ability in discovering and repelling enemy aggressions, and said the US intended...
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Cyberattack on Florida Election Is First Known Case in U.s., Experts Say
An attempt to illegally obtain absentee ballots in Florida last year is the first known case in the U.S. of a cyberattack against an online election system, according...
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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin faced some flak recently when he announced he was starting a new company in the already crowded field of digital payments.
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National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
A federal district court judge in San Francisco has ruled that National Security Letter (NSL) provisions in federal law violate the Constitution. The decision came...
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Panorama From Nasa Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp
Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured...
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Finally, A Robot Chimp that Turns Into a Tank
The harrowing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Chilean Copiapó mine collapse: extraordinarily dangerous circumstances...
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Israel Ramps p Its Cyberdefense Training
Twice a week about 200 Israeli high school students in seven separate locations meet after school for six hours of extra classes.
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Creating Indestructible Self-Healing Circuits
Researchers say they have developed self-healing integrated chips that can automatically repair themselves.
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Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.
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10 Extraordinary Pentagon Mind Experiments
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...
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Cryptographers Demonstrate New Crack For Common Web Encryption
It's long been known that one of the oldest and most widely used standards for encrypting Web sites has some serious weaknesses. But one group of researchers has...
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