Communications of the ACM
Saving Lives with Aerial Drones
Aerial drone swarms could self-assemble into hovering rescue platforms.
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U.S. Army Makes a Virtual North Korea for Training
The U.S. Army is creating a virtual duplicate of our planet in which to drill troops.
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Move Over, Tupac! Life-Size Holograms Set to Revolutionize Videoconferencing
Researchers have developed the first truly holographic videoconferencing system, allowing users in different locations to appear before one another life-size and...
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CMU Researchers Create Self-Folding Origami, Try for Pasta That Shapes as it Cooks
Researchers have created origami that folds itself.
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Scientists Plan European AI Hub to Compete With U.S.
Europe's leading scientists have crafted plans for a multinational European institute for artificial intelligence research.
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Change Blindness: Mobile Phone Users Miss Vital Information
A new study has found that the way mobile phone users interact with their devices could result in a phenomenon known as "change blindness."
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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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Universe's First Moments Mimicked with Ultracool Atoms
Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is...
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Some Startups Use Fake Data to Train AI
Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat's selfie filters—hold...
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Applying Network Analysis to Natural History
Researchers are using network analysis techniques popularized through social media applications to discover patterns in Earth's natural history.
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A First for Quantum Physics: Electron Orbitals Manipulated in Diamonds
Researchers have demonstrated a technique for engineering optical properties of defects in diamonds, providing a method of storing information that could be used...
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Machine-Learning System Processes Sounds Like Humans Do
Researchers have used a deep neural network to build the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre....
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Future Wearable Device Could Tell How We Power Human Movement
A new technology could one day help tell whether tendon injuries are sufficiently healed for people to resume normal activities.
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The Search for Universal Memory
The search for a universal memory is aimed at ultimately replacing the entire computer memory hierarchy with a single technology.
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Researchers Deliver Open-Source Simulator for Cyberphysical Systems
Researchers have created a software framework to help developers design integrated mechanisms of computation, networking, and physical processes.
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Cracking the Crypto War
On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino,...
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Who Controls Your Data?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
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Gaia Creates Richest Star Map of Our Galaxy - and Beyond
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen...
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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MoS2 Transistor Can Be Used in Bendable OLED Displays
Researchers at Korea's Yonsei and Chung-Ang universities have developed a molybdenum disulfide transistor that can be used in bendable OLED displays.
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