Communications of the ACM
Biggest Brands Embrace an Obscure Online Subculture
For years, the "Extremely Online" have shared the latest Internet memes and inside jokes. Now companies are doing the same.
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The Robo Racing Cars Accelerating Driverless Tech
The Roborace motorsport competition is a testbed for autonomous vehicle technology, as international teams pit driverless electric racing cars against each other...
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Digital Transformation: A Business Imperative
Advancing to Digital 2.0 can help the modern company anticipate the needs of the customer.
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AI System Passed an Eighth-Grade Science Test
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence introduced an artificial intelligence system that successfully passed an eighth-grade multiple-choice science test...
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3.8-Million-Year-Old Fossil Cranium Unveils More About Human Ancestry
Researchers have gained new insights into human evolution via digital reconstruction of 3.8-million-year-old fossilized cranium fragments of a hominid from Ethiopia...
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Companies Use Cyber Ranges to Practice Security Skills
U.S. companies and universities are developing cybersecurity training facilities that model real-world networks and scenarios to educate staff and evaluate theories...
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Developing Embedded Systems Faster
Researchers in a consortium of eight partners from six EU countries have created a platform that makes it possible to develop energy-efficient embedded image processing...
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French Researcher Hacks into Moscow's New E-Voting System
A French cryptographer has exposed a security flaw in an electronic voting system to be used in this month's municipal elections in Moscow.
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Hurricane Forecasters Turn to New Tools to Predict When Storms Will Rapidly Intensify
Scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to gain a better understanding of what happens within a hurricane during periods...
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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—its legend begins with a gator and a trio of researchers.
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Retrosynthetic Algorithm Broadened to Design Similar, but Different, Molecules
Researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences have developed an algorithm for performing multistep retrosynthesis and predicting the most efficiency synthetic pathways...
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People Do Grammar Bad. Google's AI is Hear Too Help.
Google has launched an artificial intelligence-powered tool that automatically detects grammar mistakes while messages are being composed in Gmail, and auto-corrects...
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U.S. Officials Fear Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election
The U.S. government intends to launch a program to shield voter registration databases and systems from hackers ahead of the 2020 election.
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AI Analysis Gives Guidance to Crisis Counselors
Researchers used state-of-the-art natural language processing to learn how the language employed by crisis counselors systematically changes over time
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Developer Jobs: From SQL to Java, These are the Skills Companies are Looking for Now
More than 140,000 advertisements for IT jobs were listed in the U.K. in the second quarter of this year, 13% fewer than were listed in the first quarter
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Facial Recognition: School ID Checks Lead to GDPR Fine
The Swedish Data Protection Authority fined the municipality of Skelleftea for using facial recognition to track students in violation of the European Union's General...
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Self-Folding 'Rollbot' Paves the Way for Fully Untethered Soft Robots
New soft robotic systems inspired by origami can move and change shape in response to external stimuli.
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Smart Cities Need to Spend More on Security Tech, Study Suggests
A new study predicts 44% of the $135 billion projected to be spent in 2024 to secure critical city infrastructure against hackers will be invested in data safeguards...
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Facebook's New Tool Lets You See Which Apps, Websites Tracked You
Researchers at Facebook have developed a tool that lets users better see and control the information the company has collected about their browsing habits outside...
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Allen School Releases Robotic Race Car Platform to Drive Advances in AI Research, Education
The newly released Multi-agent System for non-Holonomic Racing (MuSHR) platform is intended for use in assembling a robotic race car, as well as for use as a tool...
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