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The Computer That Never Crashes
University College London researchers have created what they describe as a self-repairing computer that could keep mission-critical systems working.
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Biological Connections in Microelectronics
Researchers have developed a potential solution for miniaturizing electronic components based on basic cell processes.
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In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are a Hot Commodity
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...
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Cell Circuits Remember Their History
MIT researchers have developed genetic circuits in bacterial cells that perform logic functions and remember the results.
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U.S. Air Force Project Aims to Transform Supercomputing
Virginia Tech professor Wu Feng is working to increase simulation speeds of computational fluid dynamics for the U.S. Air Force's micro air vehicles (MAVs) project...
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Magnetoelectric Materials Promise Advances in Computing Technology
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed methods for controlling magnetic order in a specific class of materials called magnetoelectrics.
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Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?
For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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nseen, All-Out Cyber War on the .s. Has Begun
There's a war going on, and it's raging here at home—not in the streets or the fields, but on the Internet.
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How to Build a Nanotube Computer
IBM researchers have assembled 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors on a silicon chip, which they say is a breakthrough that could lead to a new way of producingView...
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Intel, niversities Are Working on Transformable Cpus
Processors that change configuration depending on workload to greatly increase central-processing unit (CPU) performance and energy efficiency are the focus ofView...
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...
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Experts Discuss the Future of Supercomputers
Science Live recently hosted an online chat with University of Tennessee professor Jack Dongarra and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory deputy director Horst...
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How to se a Million-Core Supercomputer—without It Blowing p in Your Face
At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a supercomputer named "Sequoia" puts nearly every other computer on the planet to shame.
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Stanford Researchers Break Million-Core Supercomputer Barrier
Researchers at Stanford University's Center for Turbulence Research used the Sequoia IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer with more than 1 million computing cores to solve...
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Hackers in China Attacked The Times For Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters...
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