Communications of the ACM
Digital Twins Grow Up
The idea of creating digital twins to simulate real-world systems isn't new, but the concept is advancing rapidly.
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Walmart Turns to VR to Pick Middle Managers
Virtual reality training is becoming more common in a range of industries.
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Robots Could Take 20 Million Manufacturing Jobs by 2030
A study by Oxford Economics anticipates machines will replace human workers in about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world over the next decade.
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How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
E-commerce websites sometimes use devious techniques to manipulate consumers into purchasing items and online services they may not otherwise want.
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Stanford Develops 'Autofocals'--Glasses that Track Your Eyes to Focus on What You See
New prototype glasses automatically restore proper vision to people who ordinarily would need multifocal progressive lenses.
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New Deepfake Detection Tool Should Keep World Leaders Safe--for Now
A new digital forensics technique holds the potential to protect world leaders and celebrities from artificial intelligence-doctored "deepfake" videos.
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Facebook nleashes Software to Make Programming Robots Easy
Facebook has open-sourced a new software framework to simplify robotic programming.
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Over 2,000 Fake Android Apps Discovered
Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia found 2,040 counterfeit programs among more than 1 million Google Play apps.
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Astronomy Bot Speeds Search for Jupiter's Twins
A new astronomy algorithm can help identify stars around which planets may revolve.
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Researchers Develop 'Vaccine' Against Attacks on Machine Learning
New techniques can "vaccinate" algorithms against adversarial attacks.
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Florida's Latest Oddity: Semi Trucks With Nobody Inside
Startup Starsky Robotics is testing unmanned semi trucks on public roads in Florida.
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Gender Gap in Computer Science Won't Close for 100 Years
A study by the nonprofit Allen Institute predicts women writing published computer science research will not achieve gender equality in this century.
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Harnessing Public Smartphones to Track Drones
A new method of tracking unfamiliar drones leverages consumer smartphones to detect the Wi-Fi signals of nearby drones.
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New AI Programming Language Goes Beyond Deep Learning
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.
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Quantum Internet Emerging, One Experiment at a Time
Recent milestones in transmitting, storing, and manipulating quantum data have some physicists expecting the imminent creation of a proof-of-principle quantum network...
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SoNIC Program Empowers Diverse CS Students
Cornell University's SoNIC workshop, now in its ninth year, has exposed hundreds of minority students from across the U.S. to computer science, and to the prerequisites...
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NASA Hack sed Raspberry Pi
A federal review of a 2018 data breach at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered an unauthorized Raspberry Pi computer was exploited to access the network,...
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Robotic Fish Powered by Electronic Blood Can Swim for 36 Hours
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a robotic fish that is powered by its own artificial circulatory system.
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Java, JavaScript Remain Most Popular Programming Languages
Java and JavaScript continue to be the most-used programming languages, with the former the most popular primary coding language, and the latter the most used overall...
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Eavesdropping on the Brain
Putting sound to thought, to hear what the brain is 'hearing.'
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