Communications of the ACM
Swearing Dolls, Other IoT Intrusions Threaten Children's Well-being, Privacy, Data
The Internet of Playthings is not necessarily a safe place.
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Apple and Nokia Battle Over Cellphone Patents
Apple's iPhone is a technological marvel.
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U.S. Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers about Social Media
The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country...
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Ford Studies Using Drones to Guide Self-Driving Cars
Ford Motor researchers are studying a system to use drones to help guide self-driving vehicles, including on off-road adventures.
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Mimicking Biological Movements With Soft Robots
Harvard University researchers have developed a method to automatically design soft actuators based on a desired movement, in order to create a soft robot that...
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Bat Chat: Machine Learning Algorithms Provide Translations for Bat Squeaks
Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel studying Egyptian fruit bats have found a way to determine which bats are communicating with which other bats, what...
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A Level Playing Field: Lab Adapts Toys for Disabled Children
A University of North Florida program is now in its third year of adapting toys from store shelves for disabled children.
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Open Source Challenger Takes on Google Translate
A new open source machine translation framework could serve as an alternative to closed-source projects such as Google Translate.
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The Year Encryption Won
Between the revelations of mega-hacks of Yahoo and others, Russia's meddling in the US electoral system, and the recent spike in ransomware, it's easy to look at...
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Intel Bets It Can Turn Everyday Silicon into Quantum Computing's Wonder Material
Sometimes the solution to a problem is staring you in the face all along.
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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It's Automation.
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...
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Rice, Baylor Team Sets New Mark for 'Deep Learning'
A new deep learning method developed by researchers at Rice University and the Baylor College of Medicine enables computers to learn about the visual world with...
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Motion-Planning Chip Speeds Robots
Duke University researchers say they have developed a custom processor to perform robotic motion planning that accelerates the process by three orders of magnitude...
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UCLA Researchers Combat Antimicrobial Resistance Using Smartphones
New technology from a University of California, Los Angeles research team could help combat the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
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Why Microsoft Believes We're on the Threshold of Quantum Computing
Most researchers aiming to make quantum computing a reality focus on superconducting quantum bits (qubits), but Microsoft's approach avoids harnessing electronic...
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Andrew Moore
Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's school of computer science, discusses artificial intelligence and robotics.
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European Court of Justice Rules Against Mass Data Retention in EU
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday that laws allowing for the blanket collection and retention of location and traffic data are...
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Building Jarvis
My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home—like Jarvis in Iron Man.
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Nvidia Surges in 2016 Using Graphics Chips to Challenge Intel
When Paulina Sliwinska, a fund manager at Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co., made the trip to Silicon Valley looking for the next big thing in technology, she...
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