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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? Chad Hagen In December 2020, a fishy distress call from a boat off the coast of Maine opened up an investigation into its authenticity—an investigation that played into the resurgence of something called “voiceprinting.” So even in the future, try not to misplace a security key.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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I downloaded a MediaWiki instance, which is the same type of software that runs Wikipedia, installed it on a Linux computer under my desk, turned it on, and within a year we had, you know, we went from about zero to 20,000 users of the system. What's the connection between Hindu mythology and contemporary data analytics?