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Your Connected Vehicle Is Arriving
The networking of vehicles to the Internet and each other over the next decade will spark new technological and societal trends, such as lower accident rates, reduced...
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Cheating Spreads Like Infections in Online Games
Online gaming communities are investing significant resources to find and stop cheaters.
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Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to...
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How the 10,000-Year Clock Measures Time
Ten thousand years is about the age of civilisation. Archaeologists have a few relics that have spanned this period, mostly stone tools and works of art. But...
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Quantum Computing with Holograms
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...
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Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?
Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer...
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Quantum Pagerank Algorithm Outperforms Classical Version
Researchers from Complutense University of Madrid have developed a quantum version of Google's PageRank algorithm that outperforms the world's leading search...
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5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now
From e-books to 3D printing, these technologies are destroying markets and creating new ones.
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Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked
In recent months, I've met at least three people who have been the victim of hackers who've taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out emails to everyone in...
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Quantum Pagerank Algorithm Outperforms Classical Version
Google's PageRank algorithm is the idea that the importance of a Webpage can be measured by the number of important papers that point toward it.
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The Cyber Security Industrial Complex
Documents point to a huge industry that provides online surveillance tools to governments and police agencies.
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Does Apple's Siri Threaten Google's Search Monopoly?
The future of search may look a little like Kirsten Goldenberg, a 14-year-old high-school student in Los Angeles. When she needs help with a homework problem,...
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Will the Kinect 2 Be Able to Read Your Lips?
How will users hack this one? The Kinect is a device that inherently grows and expands: Microsoft itself has come around to acknowledging that the oft-hackedreally...
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IBM Makes Revolutionary Racetrack Memory Using Existing Tools
IBM researchers have developed the first prototype of racetrack computer memory, which combines on one chip all of the components needed to read, store, and write...
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Goethe University researchers have found indications of the Weber-Fichner law in the size distribution of Internet files.
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Everything You Need to Know About Carrieriq
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce.
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Video Search Solves the News Segmentation Problem
Computer scientists at Paris-based search engine company Exalead have developed Voxalead, a video search service that automatically divides news broadcasts into...
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How Games Are Driving a Mobile Graphics Revolution
The needs of players are helping to push advances from chip makers like Qualcomm and Nvidia.
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