Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the resources it requires.
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The War Over the Value of Personal Data
In a world increasingly dependent on turning personal data into profits, it is unclear how much that data is actually worth.
The Quantum Computer Era Arrives
The drive to develop and commercialize the first quantum computer has been characterized as the new arms race.
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Technologies Support Dementia Patients
A small but growing category of assistive technologies is aimed at people with cognitive disabilities.
Cartoon Clinicians: Precursors of Virtual Therapy?
Soldiers in one study were more open with a virtual character about post-traumatic stress symptoms than with human doctors.
Why Is It Difficult For the Fbi to Break Into Smartphones?
Turing Laureate Whitfield Diffie explains why the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is unable to break the encryption on your smartphone.
Are International Students Still Coming to the .s.a.?
Is the U.S. political situation, including its on-again/off-again immigration bans, scaring away foreign students?
Autonomous Construction Vehicles Are Building the Future
Self-operated construction vehicles will gain traction long before self-driving cars.
A new generation of portable scientific instruments is taking shape, thanks to mobile processors and innovative data-gathering techniques.
Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
ACM Code of Ethics: A Guide For Positive Action
THE ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (the Code) is being updated by the Code Update Task Force in conjunction with the ACM's Committee on Professional Ethics. The Code was initially written in 1992, and this is the first update since then.
A technology that could supplant standard silicon transistors as Moore's Law approaches its physical limits is based on devices that work by manipulating the spin of electrons.
Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare all possible scenarios.
AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder
Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.
Higher Education Not Neutral on Net Neutrality
The nature of today's Internet may mean trouble for the very community that birthed it, if network neutrality rules change.
In Pursuit of an Artificial Brain
Researchers are creating artificial life to take thinking beyond the human realm; the approach could redefine artificial intelligence.
The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies
Quantum computing could fundamentally break cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and throw markets into turmoil.
Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential
New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.
Game simulations are driving improvements in machine learning for autonomous vehicles and other devices.
Consumers are sampling virtual reality systems and software, without needing to buy them.
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