Communications of the ACM
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July 2017
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S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes of intensifying America's ability to wage cyberwar against the …
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Elon Musk Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario For AI Threat
Powerful technology will threaten all human jobs, could even spark a war, Tesla CEO says.
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President of ACM Awarded Honorary Degree
World-leading computer scientist professor Vicki Hanson has been awarded an honorary degree from Newcastle University.
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Want a Robot that Can Really Feel? Give It Whiskers
Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don't have sensory whiskers.
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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead
The computers in modern data centers—the engine rooms of the digital economy—are powered mainly by Intel chips.
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Iran's Newest Robot Is an Adorable Dancing Humanoid
Researchers at the University of Tehran have developed Surena Mini, a small robot with a 3D-printed body, articulated limbs, and a round head with two camera-eyes.
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Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in Dna
A video clip of a galloping horse, one of the first motion pictures ever made, is now also the first movie ever to be encoded in the DNA of a living cell, where it can be retrieved and manipulated indefinitely as the host divides…
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Wikileaks Gave Trump Edge in Campaign, Tweets Show
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that viral tweets during the final two months of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign show Hillary Clinton was much more heavily criticized on social media than Donald Trump…
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Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be an Algorithm
Google's People + AI Research (PAIR) project aims to develop and release tools designed to help make the inner workings of artificial intelligence systems more transparent.
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A New System to Estimate the Duration of a Walk in the Countryside
Researchers at the University of Seville have developed a system to estimate the time that it takes to complete a walk in the countryside. A system algorithm uses length and gradient as the main variables when establishing how…
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How Fake News Goes Viral; Here's the Math
NASA runs a child-slave colony on Mars!
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.
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Here's a Peek at the Iphone's Next Big Trick
We've all heard about the promise of augmented reality coming to the iPhone. With iOS 11 due later this year, Apple is releasing ARKit–a software that allows developers to create richer augmented reality apps that utilize the…
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a Pioneers More Effective Control For Border Patrol
Researchers are developing a framework for border surveillance that uses artificial intelligence to integrate data from different sources and respond in real time.
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sing Chip Memory More Efficiently
Jenga is a new system that reallocates a chip's memory cache access in real time to create "cache hierarchies" designed to the needs of particular programs.
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AI Research Seeks to Grow Trust Between Humans and Computers
Researchers have received a $7.55-million grant to find new ways to have artificial intelligence explain its decision-making process to human users.
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Stanford Researchers Find Intriguing Clues About Obesity By Counting Steps Via Smartphones
Stanford University researchers found that in countries with little obesity, people mostly walked a similar amount per day.
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Inside Earth, Visualized: Hd Video Models Planet's Core
Were it not for our Earth's magnetic field, the planet would be bombarded by charged particles from the sun.
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Face Scans For S Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state.
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Party Lines
Measuring the "immeasurable" could curtail electoral gerrymandering.
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Web Inventor rges Support For Net Neutrality
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, urged people to show support for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission rules that are likely to be repealed.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination
The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope.
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Lights, Camera, Crispr: Biologists se Gene Editing to Store Movies in Dna
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
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Rare Enigma Machine Fetches 45,000 Euros at Auction
A rare Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II was sold at auction Tuesday for 45,000 euros ($51,500).
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President of Harvey Mudd College Criticizes Silicon Valley's 'bro Culture'
The president of Harvey Mudd University, Maria Klawe, has criticized the culture in some of Silicon Valley's tech companies.
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w's Lip-Syncing Obama Demonstrates New Technique to Turn Audio Clips Into Realistic Video
University of Washington researchers have developed a system that can take audio clips from one speech and sync them with video clips from another.
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Why Do Some Neighborhoods Improve?
Researchers have used a computer vision system to quantify the physical improvement or deterioration of neighborhoods in five U.S. cities.
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A Computer That Reads Body Language
Researchers have developed a computer capable of understanding body poses and movements of multiple people from video in real time.
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Bangalore Taps Tech Crowdsourcing to Fix 'unruly' Gridlock
India's Gridlock Hackathon aims to find solutions to the congested roads that cost the economy billions of dollars.
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Neural Network Poetry Is So Bad We Think It's Written By Humans
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.