News tagged with computer network
WalkSafe app shields smartphone pedestrians (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Smartphone users who as pedestrians are not very smart about crossing and looking both ways now have a protective shield in the form of an Android app which they can download for free. A research ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Progress in quantum computing, qubit by qubit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Memristors: 'Computer synapse' analyzed at the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Hewlett Packard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, have analysed in unprecedented detail the physical and chemical properties of an electronic device that computer ...
May 16, 2011 |
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How to control complex networks
At first glance, a diagram of the complex network of genes that regulate cellular metabolism might seem hopelessly complex, and efforts to control such a system futile.
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 12, 2011 |
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More-efficient computation: Finding local solutions to overwhelmingly complex problems
At a time when the Internet puts an untold amount of information at anyone’s fingertips, and automated scientific experiments churn out data faster than researchers can keep up with it, and communications ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem
(PhysOrg.com) -- The fruit fly has evolved a method for arranging the tiny, hair-like structures it uses to feel and hear the world that's so efficient a team of scientists in Israel and at Carnegie Mellon ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Fundamental algorithm gets first improvement in 10 years
The maximum-flow problem, or max flow, is one of the most basic problems in computer science: First solved during preparations for the Berlin airlift, it’s a component of many logistical problems and a staple ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Coordination failure: Researchers provide insight into impacts of too much communication
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals within a networked system coordinate their activities by communicating to each other information such as their position, speed, or intention. At first glance, it seems that more ...
Sep 23, 2010 |
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Spain smashes global 'zombie' computer network: police
Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing
(AP) -- Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."
May 24, 2012 |
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Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks
(Phys.org) -- Quantum computers may someday revolutionize the information world. But in order for quantum computers at distant locations to communicate with one another, they have to be linked together in ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Spot a bot to stop a botnet
Computer scientists in India have developed a two-pronged algorithm that can detect the presence of a botnet on a computer network and block its malicious activities before it causes too much harm. The team ...
May 01, 2012 |
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Patent wars plague Internet Age
The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.
Apr 15, 2012 |
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Anonymous says it hacked Chinese government sites
(AP) -- China was struggling Thursday to restore several government websites that international hacking group Anonymous says it attacked in an apparent protest against Chinese Internet restrictions.
Apr 05, 2012 |
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