Communications of the ACM
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October 2021
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Satellites Sweep for the World's Biggest Climate Polluters
Satellites are emerging as tools to monitor countries for anti-pollution compliance.
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Tech Salaries on the Rise, Just Not in NYC or San Francisco
Technology job marketplace Hired said the push for remote work has caused technology salaries in New York City and San Francisco to fall.
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Technology Offers Anonymous Way to Report Abuse, Doping
RealResponse has forged a deal with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to use its technology platform to enable whistleblowers to report concerns about possible doping.
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AI Brings Hidden Picasso Nude to Life
Artificial intelligence, advanced imaging, and three-dimensional printing revealed the portrait of a nude woman hidden beneath the surface of a Picasso painting.
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Privacy Fears as Moscow Metro Rolls Out Facial Recognition Pay System
Privacy activists warn the Moscow metro's Face Pay facial recognition payment system constitutes a sinister move by Russia to monitor and control its people.
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Researchers Successfully Build Four-Legged Swarm Robots
A University of Notre Dame's researcher built four-legged swarm robots capable of traversing rough terrain and performing complex tasks collectively.
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Google Quietly Tweaks Image Searches for Racially Diverse Results
Effort is meant to avoid incidents that show algorithmic bias.
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Facebook Will Pay up to $14 million to Settle Claims it Favored Foreign Workers
The claims were part of an effort by the Trump administration to push the country's biggest tech companies to hire more U.S. workers.
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Another Facebook Whistleblower Just Testified in British Parliament
Here's what to know about her allegations.
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AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle for Understanding Our World
Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they're notoriously hard to solve.
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Researchers Develop AI System to Improve Eye Disease Detection
The comprehensive artificial intelligence retinal expert (CARE) system can detect and monitor eye diseases.
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7-Eleven Took Photos of Australian Customers' Faces Without Consent, Privacy Commissioner Rules
Australian privacy commissioner Angelene Falk said facial recognition technology used in 700 Australian 7-Eleven stores interfered with customer privacy.
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Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain secrets of how the planets ended up in their current orbits.
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Desperate for Workers, Restaurants Turn to Robots
They can make French fries, mix drinks, and even clean toilets, and they never ask for a raise. But they also break down.
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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.
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Almost 40% of Internet Users Globally Don't Have Internet Freedom
As the world becomes more digital, governments want to have more control over people's online presence.
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Facebook Researchers Collect Thousands of Hours of First-Person Video to Train AI
The solution to machine learning problems is generally either more or better data.
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Developing Artificial Intelligence That 'Thinks' Like Humans
Scientists still do not fully understand how Deep Neural Networks process information.
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Cutting Through the Noise
Artificial intelligence enables high-fidelity quantum computing.
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These Neural Networks Know What They're Doing
Researchers have shown that a specific neural network can learn the cause-and-effect structure of a navigation task it is taught.
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Researchers Develop Model to Assess for Flood Hazards
Canadian and U.K. scientists have developed a new technique for generating a watershed-scale flood risk model based on LiDAR data.
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Data Mining the Past
Researchers have developed an algorithm to convert old newspapers into searchable data by identifying and ranking people's names in order of their importance.
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Search Engine Could Help Researchers Scour Internet for Privacy Documents
Pennsylvania State University scientists have designed a search engine that uses artificial intelligence to sift through millions of online documents.
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How to Move More Goods Through America's Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains
Autonomous trains increasingly are seen as a solution to U.S. truck driver shortages, as well as a way for companies to reduce carbon emissions.
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Researchers Build $400 Self-Navigating Smart Cane
Stanford University researchers have unveiled a $400 self-navigating robotic cane that can help visually impaired users detect and avoid obstacles.
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How to Tell Science from Pseudoscience
Our all-in guide to ferreting out falsehoods.
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Low-Performing CS Students Face Wide Array of Struggles
A study found that lower-performing computer science students reported higher stress levels than higher-performing students.
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Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Apple, EU Phone Scanning Plans
Over a dozen cybersecurity experts have criticized proposals by Apple and the European Union to scan phones for illegal content.
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Researchers Create Earthquake System Model with Better Detection Capabilities
The University of Wyoming's Pejman Tahmasebi and Tao Bai have invented a machine learning model that boosts the accuracy of earthquake detection.
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Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Researchers developed an army of more than 4,000 simulated doglike robots and used them to train an algorithm to control a real-world robot's legs.