Communications of the ACM
World’s Largest Quantum Computer Doubles Down
D-Wave unveils an upgraded quantum computer featuring more than twice the qubits.
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High-Tech Collision Warnings, No Matter How Smart Your Car Is
Research suggests older vehicles can be equipped with high-tech systems to make them safer.
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VA Looks to 3D-Printing to Improve Veteran Care
A medical team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is pioneering new ways to use three-dimensional printing.
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Army Researchers Identify New Way to Improve Cybersecurity
Scientists may have identified a new technique for strengthening network cybersecurity.
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Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
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Transparent Architecture
Researchers have devised software that enables simulations and fine-grained analyses of real estate that can be made accessible to developers, architects, and real...
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Cracking the Crypto War
Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: it satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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How WhatsApp, FaceTime and Other Encryption Apps Shaped the Outcome of the Mueller Report
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed multiple contacts among Russian operatives and associates of President Trump in the report made public Thursday....
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Firefighters Had Secret Weapon When Notre Dame Caught Fire: A Robot Named 'Colossus'
Paris firefighters used a 1,100-pound, tank-like robot to mitigate damage to Notre Dame cathedral and prevent the conflagration from spreading further by entering...
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If Your Image Is Online, It Might Be Training Facial-Recognition AI
The photo is undeniably cute: a mom and a dad—he with a stubbly beard and rimless glasses, she with choppy brown hair and a wide grin—goofing around and eating...
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How 5G Drove Moves by Apple, Qualcomm and Intel
Apple Inc and Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business...
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The Hunt for Alien Life Starts in Earth's Most Extreme Places
Scientists are using advanced technology to explore extreme environments on Earth to seek out and examine resilient microorganisms.
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Can a Computer Write a Script? Machine Learning Goes Hollywood
The idea of using machine learning programs to help write scripts and other tasks is becoming increasingly popular in Hollywood.
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YouTube's Notre Dame-9/11 Flub Highlights AI's Blind Spots
YouTube might need a few more humans. The machines whose job is to tamp down conspiracy theories are not cutting it just yet.
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New Recruitment Tool for Construction: The Joystick
The U.S. construction industry aims to restore its workforce by attracting younger replacements who grew up playing PC games.
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Craftsmen Built Notre Dame Eight Centuries Ago. Now It May Be Up to Robots to Save It.
As the first images of charred wreckage inside the Notre Dame cathedral appeared online Tuesday, engineers around the world said one observation was already clear...
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Algorithms to Enhance Forest Inventories
A researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has developed algorithms capable of determining inventory parameters of trees over large...
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Employee Privacy in the U.S. at Stake as Corporate Surveillance Technology Monitors Workers' Every Move
The advent of technologies that let businesses track, overhear, and monitor employees on company time is raising issues about corporate surveillance.
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A Robot Has Figured Out How to Use Tools
A new robotic system can figure out at least the first principles of tool use, through a combination of experimentation and observation.
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Spy on Your Smart Home With This Open Source Research Tool
Princeton University researchers have built an open source Web app that allows homeowners to monitor their smart home devices.
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