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Edison Electrifies Scientific Computing
The U.S. National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, recently accepted Edison, a new flagship...
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IBM and PARC to Design Sensitive Electronics for Military that Shatter to Dust on Command
Two U.S. companies are joining a military research program to develop sensitive electronic components able to self-destruct on command to keep them out of the hands...
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Perfecting the Art of Sensible Nonsense
As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a "zero-knowledge" proof, a type...
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Evidence Emerges That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All
Back in 2011, the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin paid a cool $10 million for the world's first commercial quantum computer from a Canadian start up called D-Wave...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
Researchers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development (ASTID) program are designing algorithms and instruments that could help...
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Silicon Brains That Think as Fast as a Fly Can Smell
Researchers in Germany have discovered what they say is a way to get computers to do more than execute all the steps of a problem-solving calculation as fast as...
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We the Internet: Bitcoin Developers Seed Idea For Bitcloud
Bitcoin developers want to decentralize the current Internet and replace it with a new Internet.
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N.s.a. Choice Is Navy Expert on Cyberwar
In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new...
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Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?
How much are a dozen deep-learning researchers worth?
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Beyond Moore's Law: Nanocomputing sing Nanowire Tiles
Ultra-small electronic computer systems currently under development push beyond the imminent end of Moore's Law, researchers say.
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Joining p Computer Memory
Researchers say innovative electrodes will help make new resistive random access memory technologies compatible with existing circuitry.
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Graphene Rival 'phosphorene' Is Born to Be a Transistor
Phosphorene, which is structurally similar to graphene, is a natural semiconductor that could be used in the next generation of computers.
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How the Incite Project Allots Supercomputer Hours
Researchers vie for some of the billions of computer-hours available on two of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
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D-Wave Aims to Beat Any Classical Computer
D-Wave says its D-Wave Two quantum computer's 509-qubit Vesuvius 6 (V6) processor can rival state-of-the-art semiconducting processors.
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The Inside Story of Tor, the Best Internet Anonymity Tool the Government Ever Built
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.
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The White House Is Going to Study Big Data. Here Are 5 Things It Should Know
The White House announced via blog post on Thursday that it's forming working group focused on understanding the promises and pitfalls of big data (with a heavy...
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Neural Nets: Now Available in the Cloud
A new system called N2Sky sets up neural networks in the cloud so their services can be shared like other computing resources.
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Fbi Warns Retailers to Expect More Credit Card Breaches
The FBI has warned U.S. retailers to prepare for more cyber attacks after discovering about 20 hacking cases in the past year that involved the same kind of malicious...
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New Accelerated Visualization and Data Analytics Resources For Open Science Community
The University of Texas at Austin this month will deploy Maverick, a high-performance visualization and data analytics system that will replace the Longhorn system...
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