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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Quantum Chip Connected to Internet Is Yours to Command
University of Bristol researchers have brought quantum computing to the cloud, enabling anyone with a Web browser to be able to log in and run basic algorithms...
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Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet
Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...
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Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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Adept Emphasizes Energy-Efficient Parallelism
The European Union-funded ADEPT project is exploring the energy-efficient use of parallel technologies. ADEPT aims to help high-performance computing software...
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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands...
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How Syrian Hackers Found the New York Times's Australian Weak Spot
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...
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Cost-Saving Computer Chips Get Smaller Than Ever
The European Union is funding a project that seeks to improve the reliability of terascale computing by improving chip design.
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How Snowden Did It
When Edward Snowden stole the crown jewels of the National Security Agency, he didn't need to use any sophisticated devices or software or go around any computer...
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In Markets' Tuned-p Machinery, Stubborn Ghosts Remain
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.
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Magnetic Diversion For Electronic Switches
'Chameleon processors' could function as programmable logic or nonvolatile memory.
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Software-Defined Networking
Novel architecture allows programmers to quickly reconfigure network resource usage.
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Quantum Paradox Seen in Diamond
A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips.
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How to Save the Troubled Graphene Transistor
The writing is on the wall for the silicon chip.
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When You Can't Tell Web Suffixes Without a Scorecard
On the Web, there's no place like .home.
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Intel Proposes New Standard to Light Up Data Transfers
Intel's proposed new optical interconnect, MXC, could be a key step in standardizing optical technology and bringing it to servers faster.
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Dragonflies Can See By Switching 'on' and 'off'
The vision systems for robots could benefit from research into the visual circuit in the brain of dragonflies.
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Why We’re a Long Way From Computers That Really Work Like the Human Brain
Significant work remains to be done before computers designed to simulate the human brain achieves that goal.
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A New 'dawn' in Exchanges' War on Hackers
When prices on some U.S. stocks suddenly zoomed one day last month and others unexpectedly plunged, stock-market officials set out to detect a possible computer...
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