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Two Apps Aim To Tell The Truth And Nothing But The Truth
Two new software tools — both works-in-progress — are being built to help online readers distinguish truth from BS.
Apple has been a leader in digital revolution disruption, and its iPhones and iPads aren't finished marginalizing PCs or making today's household and industrial control systems obsolete.
Researchers Struggle to Measure Big Data’s Impact
The impact of big data on the U.S. economy is huge, but how huge isn’t easily determined.
Interactive print technology could change the way you read and interact with documents, newspapers, and more.
Major Update to ACM’s Computing Classification System
ACM has completed a major update of its Computing Classification System (CCS), which has served as the de facto standard for classifying the computing literature since 1964.
Forensics experts increasingly use data from digital devices to solve crimes, fight lawsuits, and unravel accidents.
With the AEGIS system, the Mars Exploration Rovers can autonomously select, capture, and analyze images using onboard logic.
Disney's Touché project could transform every conductive surface into a touch-control surface.
ist Conference Presents Prototype Interface Projects
User interfaces have moved beyond mice and keyboards to touch screens, voice controls, and visual inputs like the Microsoft Kinect as was demonstrated at the recent 25th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
Chips That Melt in Your Body, Not in Your Hands
Welcome to the brave new world of transient electonics.
Mobile App Puts Brakes on Texting While Driving
Everyone knows that texting while driving kills, but that’s not enough to incentivize many people, especially teens, to keep their eyes on the road. Now a new mobile app, DriveScribe, awards motorists the equivalent of "frequent driver miles" for safe driving.
It’s impossible to look anywhere these days without noticing how profoundly Apple has influenced design and computing interfaces.
Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.
With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions.
Computer Science and the Three Rs
A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K--12 curriculum.
New Pcs That Ship With Preloaded Malware
Open the bubble wrap on a new PC and the one thing you don't expect to find is preloaded malware.
Nomenclaturing: Let’s Ture to the Max!
Christos Papadimitriou's recently published reminiscences include the fascinating story of how he learned about Turing Machines: As a bored undergraduate in a Greek university, he happened to see the definition buried within an article about pattern recognition, and he was immediately entranced.
Ethical Robots: Let Their Artificial Consciences Be Their Guides
When lethal autonomous robots take their place on the field of battle and function independent of human control, what will govern the decisions of these next-gen weapons to either shoot or hold their fire?
Super-Fast Broadband: Build It and They will Come–Maybe
When the Internet pipelines in cities like Chattanooga and Kansas City are accelerated to super-fast broadband, the leading-edge technology is expected to generate new business opportunities, but there are no guarantees.
After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.
Thirty-two of the 39 living A.M. Turing Award laureates gathered in San Francisco to pay tribute to "the father of CS" and discuss the past, present, and future of computing.
Thanks to the University of New South Wales and IBM Research, scientists are moving closer to the junction of quantum and digital computing.
Security researchers used malware to investigate large-scale Internet censorship in Egypt and Libya.
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