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Atomic Bits Despite Zero-Point Energy?

July 8, 2016 — Scientists have found out that zero-point energy plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far have never ... read more

Accelerating Research Into Dark Energy

July 7, 2016 — A quick method for making accurate, virtual universes to help understand the effects of dark matter and dark energy has been developed by scientists. Making up 95 percent of our universe, these ... read more

Your Smartwatch Is Giving Away Your ATM PIN

July 6, 2016 — Wearable devices can give away your passwords, according to new research. In a new paper, researchers combined data from embedded sensors in wearable technologies, such as smartwatches and fitness ... read more

It's Automatic: Smartphone App Manages Your Privacy Preferences

July 6, 2016 — A field study suggests a personalized privacy assistant app currently under development can simplify the chore of setting privacy permissions for your smartphone apps. That's ... read more

A Little Impurity Makes Nanolasers Shine

July 5, 2016 — Scientists have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, in a discovery which will be central to the development of low-cost biomedical sensors, quantum ... read more

Superconductor’s Strange Behavior Results in New Laboratory Tool

June 28, 2016 — Researchers have discovered an exceptional new quantum state within a superconducting material. This exceptional quantum state is characterized by a broken rotational ... read more

Internet Attacks: Finding Better Intrusion Detection

June 28, 2016 — The brute force and sheer scale of current Internet attacks put a heavy strain on classic methods of intrusion detection. Moreover, these methods aren't prepared for the rapidly growing number of ... read more

Bitcoin: Energy-Efficient Security Mechanisms for Digital Currency

June 28, 2016 — A new cryptographic puzzle has been developed that might one day be used as a security mechanism for digital currency such as bitcoin. It consumes significantly less energy than the method used to ... read more

Key Power-Splitting Component for Terahertz Waves

June 29, 2016 — One of the most basic components of any communications network is a power splitter that allows a signal to be sent to multiple users and devices. Researchers have now ... read more

New Artificial Intelligence Beats Tactical Experts in Combat Simulation

June 27, 2016 — Artificial intelligence recently won out during simulated aerial combat against US expert tacticians. Importantly, it did so using no more than the processing power available ... read more

The Jig Is Up: You Can Be Prosecuted For Sharing Passwords

Google Is Training Its Artificial Intelligence To Detect Eye Disease

China Gets a New Cyber Censor-in-Chief

Tesla Driver Killed While Using 'Autopilot'

Brilliant Hard Drive Quality With Magnetic Field Sensors Made of Diamond

June 30, 2016 — Quantum mechanics is not only of high interest in fundamental research. The current progress in quantum technologies promises numerous innovations of industrial relevance, which will be transferred ... read more

No Need for Supercomputers

June 28, 2016 — A group of physicists in Russia has learned to use a personal computer for calculations of complex equations of quantum mechanics, usually solved with help of supercomputers. This PC does the job ... read more

Video Privacy Software Lets You Select What Others Can See

June 28, 2016 — Camera-equipped smartphones, laptops and other devices make it possible to share ideas and images with anyone, anywhere, often in real-time. But in our cameras-everywhere culture, the risks of ... read more

Computer Sketches Set to Make Online Shopping Much Easier

June 24, 2016 — A computer program that recognizes sketches could help consumers shop more efficiently. Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) overcomes problems with using words to describe visual objects ... read more

Visual Cloud Computing Methods Could Help First Responders in Disaster Scenarios

June 23, 2016 — Visual data created by numerous security cameras, personal mobile devices and aerial video provide useful data for first responders and law enforcement. That data can be critical in terms of knowing ... read more

Students Make Your Plant Spin, and They Have Other Internet of Things Innovations, Too

June 22, 2016 — Internet of things, IoT, is a fast expanding network of consumer and industrial devices, i.e., “things”. One lab has a growing good reputation for letting the computer science students develop ... read more

Compiler for Analog Computers Enhances Biological Modeling

June 21, 2016 — A new compiler for analog computers has been developed, a program that translates between high-level instructions written in a language intelligible to humans and the low-level specifications of ... read more

Power of Supercomputing to Find Rare-Earth Refining Alternatives

June 20, 2016 — Scientists have identified agents for the separation of rare-earth metals that are potentially much less costly and better-performing than those currently ... read more

RedEye Could Let Your Phone See 24-7

June 20, 2016 — Researchers have just the thing for information overload: image-processing technology that sees all and remembers only what it should. RedEye could allow computers to continuously see what their ... read more

Crowdsourcing Platform Makes Public Gene Expression Data More Accessible

June 20, 2016 — Scientists have developed a free online platform that uses a crowdsourcing approach to make public gene expression data more accessible to biomedical researchers without computational ... read more

Chip Makes Parallel Programs Run Faster With Less Code

June 20, 2016 — Researchers present a new chip design they call Swarm, which should make parallel programs not only much more efficient but easier to write, ... read more

Titan Shines Light on High-Temperature Superconductor Pathway

June 20, 2016 — Scientists have used the Titan supercomputer at ORNL to simulate cuprates on the path to superconductivity. The team focused on a pivotal juncture on the cuprates’ path called the pseudogap phase, ... read more

New Technique Improves Accuracy of Computer Vision Technologies

June 20, 2016 — Researchers have developed a new technique that improves the ability of computer vision technologies to better identify and separate objects in an image, a process called ... read more

Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time

June 20, 2016 — Robots with multi-jointed arms must plan their motion, a difficult problem that requires time-consuming computation. Simply picking an object up in an environment that has not been pre-engineered for ... read more

Artificial Intelligence Achieves Near-Human Performance in Diagnosing Breast Cancer

June 20, 2016 — Pathologists have been largely diagnosing disease the same way for the past 100 years, by manually reviewing images under a microscope. But new work suggests that computers can help doctors improve ... read more

Professor Helps Track Illegal Drug Use Via Social Media

June 17, 2016 — A professor has developed a tool that leverages social media data to help analyze use patterns of illegal drugs by young adults across the ... read more

Successful Demonstration of Nonvolatile Memory Sub-Nanosecond Operation Spells Good News for Internet of Things

June 17, 2016 — A research team has demonstrated he sub-nanosecond operation of a nonvolatile magnetic memory ... read more

Method for Detecting Quantum Entanglement Refined

June 17, 2016 — In the future when quantum computers become available, this method can potentially serve as a tool in certifying whether the system has enough entanglement between the ... read more

FBI Approach to Investigations Puts Security at Risk, Experts Say

June 16, 2016 — Experts say the FBI's efforts to compel Apple to write software to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist reflects an outdated approach to law enforcement that threatens to weaken smartphones ... read more

Diverting Redirection Spam

June 16, 2016 — Web browsers might soon use fuzzy logic to spot redirection spam and save users from being scammed, phished or opening malicious sites unwittingly, according to ... read more

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