Communications of the ACM
The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
Future online meetings could include people in disparate locations cutting a virtual birthday cake together.
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Python Pioneer Assesses the 30-year-old Programming Language
Software engineer Pablo Galindo discusses the challenges of enabling a programming language to grow and evolve without sacrificing backward compatibility.
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Fact-Finding Mission
Artificial intelligence provides automatic fact-checking and fake news detection, but with limits.
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Computer Love
A computer simulation developed by Dan Conroy-Beam at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers a framework for evaluating theories of human mate choice...
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Children Less Likely to Catch, Spread COVID-19, Modeling Shows
Simulations of COVID-19 transmission within households conducted by researchers at the University of Haifa found that persons 20 years and younger have less coronavirus...
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Lygon Blockchain Platform Mints Digital Bank Guarantee
A new blockchain platform named Lygon, formed by Australian banks ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Westpac, IBM, and shopping center company Scentre...
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Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption
Swiss technology company Terra Quantum said that it used quantum computers to expose vulnerabilities in commonly used encryption, which could threaten the confidentiality...
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Phishing Attack Uses Morse Code to Hide Malicious URLs
BleepingComputer has identified a new targeted phishing campaign in which emails pretending to be company invoices use Morse code in an attachment to hide malicious...
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The Computers Rejecting Your Job Application
While recruiters have been using artificial intelligence for the past decade, the technology has been greatly refined in recent years.
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ENIAC Turns 75
The first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer was introduced to the world on Valentine’s Day in 1946.
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Apple Fixes Another 3 iOS Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild
Apple has released patches for three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities.
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F-35's Buggy Software Prompts Pentagon to Call in Universities
The Pentagon is consulting with U.S. universities to evaluate software on aerospace company Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet in the hope of correcting the buggy...
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Tracking Down DOPE, the First Computer Language for Normal Humans
DOPE has remained hidden because it was successful.
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Google Says It's Too Easy for Hackers to Find New Security Flaws
Attackers are exploiting the same types of software vulnerabilities over and over again, because companies often miss the forest for the trees
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Battle of the Robots Still Favors Japan, Europe--For Now
China continues to be the biggest market for industrial robots, even though the market’s growth had been slowing prior to the pandemic, due to the U.S.-China trade...
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LAMBDA: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function
Lambda allows users to define new functions written in Excel's own formula language.
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Ethical-source Movement Opens New Open-source Organization
Ethical-source leaders are trying to find more support for their open-source approach by creating the Organization for Ethical Source.
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Technological Responses to COVID-19
Companies are finding new ways to enforce social distancing, clean public spaces, and provide substitutes for human workers.
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Autonomous Racing Is Coming to Indianapolis With the Indy Autonomous Challenge
The Indy Autonomous Challenge, announced during the 2021 CES show, will be a spec race with mechanically identical cars, and software that each team hopes will...
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