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The Global Chip Shortage is Creating a New Problem: More Fake Components
Industry analysts believe that the global chip shortage is creating the perfect environment for counterfeit semiconductors to enter the market.
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Cybersecurity Executive Order 2021: What It Means for Cloud and SaaS Security
Understanding the fundamentals of the White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.
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AI Spots Coronal Holes to Automate Space Weather Prediction
Automated space weather prediction came a step closer to reality via a neural network that can identify coronal holes in space-based observations.
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Meet Grace, the Healthcare Robot COVID-19 Created
Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics has developed a prototype robot to engage with seniors and those isolated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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No Chips, No Tips: How the Computer Chip Shortage Threatens Thousands of Restaurant Service Jobs
Faced with no semiconductor chips for their ordering machines, restaurants pivot away from human servers and toward contact-less ordering.
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Tech Companies Want to Make Holograms Part of Office Life
To reduce Zoom fatigue, some companies want to implement holograms in the workplace.
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IBM Partners with U.K. on $300 Million Quantum Computing Research Initiative
A five-year, $297.5-million partnership between IBM and the U.K. government will research quantum computing and artificial intelligence in the quest for sustainable...
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Defending Against the Next Stuxnet
Experts are skeptical of an Iranian plan to evade Stuxnet replay attacks.
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Leader in Power-Efficient Computer Architecture Receives Eckert-Mauchly Award
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have named Princeton University's Margaret Martonosi recipient of the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award.
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Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain
Scientists used computer simulations of the brain to predict the extent to which bilingual Hispanic stroke survivors will recover language skills.
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Feds Recover More Than $2 Million in Ransomware Payments from Colonial Pipeline Hackers
U.S. officials say more than $2 million in cryptocurrency payments to the hackers who held Colonial Pipeline hostage in May has been recovered.
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Amazon Sidewalk: What to Know before Sharing Your Home's Bandwidth
Live now and enabled by default, Sidewalk keeps other people's devices near your home connected by passing their signals through your Echo and Ring devices.
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Semantics Beats Syntax
IBM, Google, and Microsoft are all developing algorithms that understand the meaning of words.
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Apple Announces Enhanced Privacy in New iPhone OS
The next version of iPhone operating software will have improved privacy features, Apple says.
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RISC vs. CISC Is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs
It's time to pull this discussion into the modern era and consider what the implications of this "RISC vs. CISC" comparison are for the ARM and x86 CPUs actually...
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FYI: Today's Computer Chips are So Advanced, They are More 'Mercurial' than Precise – and Here's the Proof
Rarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale.
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Engineers Create a Programmable Fiber
Engineering researchers collaborated on the design of the first programmable digital fiber.
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Quantum Memory Crystals Are a Step Towards Futuristic Internet
Researchers at Spain's Institute of Photonic Sciences have taken a step toward a secure quantum Internet by using crystals to execute quantum teleportation of information...
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A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says
A United Nations report suggested that a drone, used against militia fighters in Libya's civil war, may have selected a target autonomously.
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