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New Pi Record Exploits Yahoo's Computers
Yahoo researcher Tsz-Wo Sze developed software that made a record-breaking calculation of the digits of pi using the company's computers. Sze's program represents...
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Lipscomb Cluster Performance Tops 40 Teraflops
The University of Kentucky's new high-performance computer was measured at speeds of over 40 teraflops during benchmark testing.
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Mobile Chips Battle For Processing Power
Inside your smartphone, a battle is raging. As tiny chips with big ambitions fight for processing power, is there anything the phones of the future will not be...
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Hydrogen-Powered, Solar-Inspired Nano-Battery
University of Illinois at Chicago materials engineer Eduard Karpov received a three-year, $217,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a...
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'citizen Scientists' Could Help in Response to Environmental Disasters
Jules White, with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering, seeks to create a massive data collection system that would rely on information captured by "citizen...
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Turning Thoughts into Words
A new approach allows more information to be extracted from the brain.
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Facebook Hopes Virtual Credits Make Real Dollars
For all its success, Google is often criticized for being a one-trick pony. After 12 years, the Internet search company is still struggling to find a significant...
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Extending the Law of War to Cyberspace
It may come as a surprise to some war victims, but there actually is a body of international law that establishes when and how nations can legally engage in armed...
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Clever Cars to Mean Safer Driving
On-board computers and sensors in cars are helping to augment a person's driving skill and that trend will only continue as technologies such as collision-detection...
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New Research Improves Ability to Detect Malware in Cloud-Computing Systems
North Carolina State University researchers have developed HyperSentry, software that offers enhanced security for cloud computing systems.
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Mobile
Some of technology's biggest companies are developing AI-related hardware, software, and components to run on smartphones and tablets. Might a wireless device...
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Europe Calls For Global Internet Treaty
The Council of Europe has proposed a global Internet Treaty designed to protect the Internet from political interference. The treaty operates on 12 Principles...
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Lightweight True Random Number Generators a Step Closer
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology say they have developed the most lightweight true...
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How Safe Is Your Swipe?
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a method of extracting information from chip technology by combining modern cryptology methods with constraint programming...
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Less Is More in the Fight Against Terrorism
Suffolk University's Philip Vos Fellman used tools for analyzing complex systems to study terrorist networks. Vos Fellman says his computer models offer clues...
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Eu Project Aims to Build Computers That Can Learn From S
The EU-funded COGNITO project is building a computer system that can observe people, learn how they do things, and help them carry out tasks. The research team's...
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Dancing Robot Swan Triggers Emotions
Researchers at Sweden's Malardalen University have created a robot in the form of a swan that can dance to the music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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Code That Tracks sers' Browsing Prompts Lawsuits
Sandra Person Burns used to love browsing and shopping online. Until she realized she was being tracked by software on her computer that she thought she had erased...
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Parting the Waters: Computer Modeling Applies Physics to Red Sea Escape Route
New research shows the extent to which such sustained winds can dramatically lower water levels. The research suggests that such a "wind setdown" event could have...
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