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Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight Global Wildfires
New technologies are being deployed to predict, monitor, and fight wildfires as their frequency and ferocity grow.
Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
ACM Publications Finances for 2020
This annual update on ACM Publications finances summarizes income and expenses for the 2020 calendar year.
Creating new beers has typically relied solely on human expertise, but artificial intelligence (AI) could soon be harnessed to assist in beer development. “(AI) can help people to be more creative,” says Marc Bravin, a researcher at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland. “Most people have a (specific) mindset and don’t think […]
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
What Caused the Facebook Outage?
A bug prevented an audit tool from stopping a command that errantly took down all connections in Facebook's global backbone network.
Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: Hunting for Bugs
Companies offer big money to 'white-hat hackers' to find flaws in software products before the black hats do.
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.
Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.
Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
The teams behind the real and virtual robots named as winners shared a total of $5 million in prize money.
AI and Sustainability: Where Are We and What’s Next?
Researchers are exchanging views and proposing solutions as questions around AI's environmental impact become more urgent.
In Space, No One Can Fix Your Sign Errors
Once you've left the Earth, the simple inversion of a critical parameter can cause a mission to fail.
The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
Future online meetings could include people in disparate locations cutting a virtual birthday cake together.
Google’s AI Upscaling Technology Outperforms Previous Models
New models developed by the search giant upgrade the resolution of photos.
Interacting With Computers Through Smell
We typically interact with computers and virtual environments using vision, hearing, and touch, but there is growing interest in also incorporating smell, to replicate more closely how we interact with the real world. Odors could help people feel more present in virtual reality settings, for example, while smell could also play a role in how […]
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