Communications of the ACM
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate Cracked
It took researchers in Belgium just an hour to crack the SIKE cryptographic algorithm.
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Virtual Collaboration in the Age of the Coronavirus
Videoconferencing apps took off during the COVID-19 lockdowns, but more efficient ways to collaborate virtually are waiting in the wings.
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Algorithm Improves Fairness of Search Results
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm to improve the fairness of online search rankings while retaining their utility and relevance.
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AI-Powered Search Engine Makes It Easier to Find Information in the Fight Against COVID-19
Researchers have developed a dedicated search engine for researchers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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Across the Language Barrier
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
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Google Just Got Better at Understanding Your Trickiest Searches
Google is rolling out an update to its English-language search engine that vice president of search Pandu Nayak calls "the single biggest change we've had in the...
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Retrosynthetic Algorithm Broadened to Design Similar, but Different, Molecules
Researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences have developed an algorithm for performing multistep retrosynthesis and predicting the most efficiency synthetic pathways...
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Can You Locate Your Location Data?
Smartphone apps offering location data services may be desirable, but their ability to collect personal data that can be sold to third parties is less attractive...
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Russia Wants to Cut Itself Off from the Global Internet. Here's What that Really Means.
In the next two weeks, Russia is planning to attempt something no other country has tried before. It's going to test whether it can disconnect from the rest of...
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The Future of Data Storage
Research into next-generation storage techniques marches forward, yet tape remains the most viable, dependable medium.
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Fewer than 200 People Watched the New Zealand Massacre Live. A Hateful Group Helped It Reach Millions
As the New Zealand gunman live-streamed the massacre onto Facebook, fewer than 200 people watched. The social network said its moderators removed it sometime after...
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How Social Media's Business Model Helped the New Zealand Massacre Go Viral
The ability of Internet users to spread a video of Friday's slaughter in New Zealand marked a triumph—however appalling—of human ingenuity over computerized systems...
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Why AI Is Still Terrible at Spotting Violence Online
Artificial intelligence can identify people in pictures, find the next TV series you should binge watch on Netflix, and even drive a car.
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Machine Learning Can se Tweets to Spot Critical Security Flaws
At the endless booths of this week's RSA security trade show in San Francisco, an overflowing industry of vendors will offer any visitor an ad nauseam array of...
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Washington Fears New Threat from 'Deepfake' Videos
Lawmakers and experts are sounding the alarm about "deepfakes," forged videos that look remarkably real, warning they will be the next phase in disinformation campaigns...
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Machine Learning Can Offer New Tools, Fresh Insights for the Humanities
Truly revolutionary political transformations are naturally of great interest to historians, and the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century is widely...
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Countering Russian Disinformation the Baltic Nations' Way
As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications...
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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