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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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Bigger Steps: Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Algorithm to Make Simulation of ltrafast Processes Possible
A new algorithm increases the small time step required to create real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena.
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Nist Announces Pilot Grants Competition to Improve Security and Privacy of Online Identity Verification Systems
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a fourth round of grants for developing online identity verification systems that help...
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White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist
Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.
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Time Lords: The Clocks That Rule Our World
Time is money—and never was this clearer than at 09:59:59.985 Eastern Time, on 3 June 2013.
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If Software Looks Like a Brain and Acts Like a Brain—will We Treat It Like One?
Long the domain of science fiction, researchers are now working to create software that perfectly models human and animal brains.
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The Shape of Things to Come
In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has...
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Star Buzzed Solar System During Human Prehistory
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...
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Comet on 14 February from 8.7 Km
On 14 February 2015, Rosetta swooped over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at a distance of just 6 km. The closest approach took place at 12:41 GMT...
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New Algorithms Locate Where a Video Was Filmed From Its Images and Sounds
A new system can geolocate videos by comparing their audiovisual content with a worldwide multimedia database.
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Stanford Engineer Produces Free Braille-Writer App
Stanford University researchers have developed iBrailler Notes, an iPad app they say is the world's first Braille writing platform designed for a tablet computer...
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Apple Gears p to Challenge Tesla in Electronic Cars
Apple reportedly has several hundred of its employees working on a project to create a new Apple-branded electric vehicle.
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Smarter Multicore Chips
Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or cores...
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Raspberry Pi 2 Review: A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot
Our computers have become too easy to use.
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Did Nsa Plant Spyware in Computers Around World?
Did the National Security Agency plant spyware deep in the hard drives of thousands of computers used by foreign governments, banks and other surveillance targets...
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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Dawn Captures Sharper Images of Ceres
Craters and mysterious bright spots are beginning to pop out in the latest images of Ceres from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Cryptographers Could Prevent Satellite Collisions
In February 2009 the U.S.'s Iridium 33 satellite collided with the Russian Cosmos 2251, instantly destroying both communications satellites.
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Exotic States Materialize With Supercomputers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter.
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