Communications of the ACM
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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Robots Key to New Ways of Farming as Labor Shortage Looms
Robots increasingly are being deployed on farms in Japan amid an impending labor shortage.
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Technology Bolsters the Battle Against Wildfires
Technology increasingly is being used to predict and fight wildfires.
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Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China to Fix Self-Driving Systems
Tesla is recalling nearly all the vehicles it has sold in China to update their computer software.
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Microsoft Adding New PC Keyboard Button
Microsoft is adding an AI button to its Windows keyboards, the company's first significant keyboard change in nearly three decades.
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Humanoid Robot Acts Out Prompts Like It's Playing Charades
A humanoid robot developed by researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo can be controlled by giving text prompts to the large language model GPT-4.
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Computer Science Pioneer Niklaus Wirth Passes Away
ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate Niklaus Emil Wirth passed away Jan. 1 at age 89.
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App to Help Older Adults Spot Online Scams
A new app is intended to prevent elder fraud by helping older adults identify online scams.
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Java Applications Have Major Security Flaws
Widely-used Java applications were found to have major security vulnerabilities.
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SUTD Professor Designs 3D-Printed 'Trees' for Singapore Pavilion at COP28
Two 3D-printed “trees” made of stainless steel and upcycled plastic waste were centerpieces of the Singapore pavilion at the U.N. COP28 climate conference.
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Vera Molnár, Pioneer of Computer Art, Dies at 99
Vera Molnár, a Hungarian-born artist who has been called the godmother of generative art for her pioneering digital work, died Dec. 7 in Paris at age 99.
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Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars with 'Insufficient' Autopilot Safety Controls
Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles to fix Autopilot systems that government regulators determined did not have enough controls to prevent misuse.
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Robo-Dog Sets 100-Meter Sprint Guinness World Record
Guinness World records labeled a dog-like robot created by a team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology the fastest quadrupedal robot.
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows
COBOL is one of the top mainframe programming languages in use, but most schools and universities have not taught COBOL in decades.
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Researchers Taught an Algorithm to 'Taste'
Scientists taught an algorithm to better predict an individual's tastes in wines.
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Using LLMs to Code New Tasks for Robots
A research team developed a tool that uses large language models to code new tasks for robots, which it then simulates.
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Crowdsourced Feedback Helps Train Robots
A reinforcement learning approach trains robots using crowdsourced feedback from nonexpert users.
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Robot Can Tidy Up Clothes in a Messy Bedroom
Ken Goldberg at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues developed a robot system to efficiently pick up strewn clothes.
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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
Researchers say a majority of the world’s most popular websites put users and their data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards.
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Apple to Make It Easier to Text Between iPhones, Androids
Apple will adopt a technological standard next year that will allow text messaging to operate more smoothly between its iOS devices and Android devices.
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