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New Class of Malware Attacks Specific Chips
Computer scientists reveal malware that attacks specific processors rather than the operating system that runs on them.
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Supercomputer Digests Twitter in Real-Time
Specialized hardware and software could provide new insights into the social Web.
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Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, Amd
China may finally have a processor to power a homegrown supercomputer.
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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors
A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.
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Improving Phones Through Surveillance
Apps that track how people use their phones could help make the devices more efficient.
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Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter
A new system identifies users by their mobile phones.
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Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
The trick lets sensors last five times as long between charges.
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Electric Skin That Rivals the Real Thing
Two separate research groups have developed pressure-sensing devices that can match human skin in sensitivity and flexibility.
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
An electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a networking router that transmits data at nearly 40 gigabytes per second,...
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Synaptic Behavior Captured By New Memristor Circuit Design
University of Tehran researchers Farnood Merrikh-Bayat and Saeed Bagheri have found that two memristors used in a series work more like a human brain using Hebbian...
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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Software-driven networking will enable new Internet protocols.
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The Future of Interfaces Is Mobile, Screen-Less and Invisible
Google's Android developer advocate Reto Meier recently described where computer interfaces are headed, predicting that in five years there will be widely available...
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An Implantable Antenna
A prototype silk biosensor could someday alert doctors to signs of disease.
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Finding Our Way with Digital Bread Crumbs
A Microsoft research project explores whether sensors in mobile devices could help us navigate without GPS.
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A New Kind of Microchip
A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online banking systems to the flash memory...
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Dual Antennas Would Boost Cell-Phone Signals
New design would mean fewer dropped calls, longer battery life.
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