News tagged with data networks
Scientists develop new way to decipher hidden messages in symbols
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all information, in a sense, can be represented by symbols. In order to extract this embedded information, the symbols and the rules governing their sequence formation need to be deciphered. ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Facebook knows too much, ACLU says in warning of quizzes
Privacy advocates have long warned that users of Facebook and other social networks who seek amusement from quizzes like "What Simpsons Character Are You?" might be mortified by the way creators of such applications can access ...
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 18, 2009 |
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An invitation to crime: How a friendly click can compromise a company
"Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob". That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic ...
Mar 13, 2010 |
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Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds
Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically increase the data carrying capacity of standard copper wires. The company achieved data transmission speeds of 825 megabits per second (Mbps) ...
Oct 31, 2010 |
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Canada privacy chief criticizes new Facebook changes
Facebook users may be targets of blackmail after changes that erode personal security protections on the world's most popular social network website, Canada's privacy czar warned Saturday.
Apr 25, 2010 |
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World Cup Security Uses Physics To Thwart Hackers
South African physicists working to protect data networks at the World Cup hope to provide something that no goalkeeper can promise: perfect defense. They're tapping the laws of physics to prevent hackers ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 21, 2010 |
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The elusive capacity of data networks
In its early years, information theory — which grew out of a landmark 1948 paper by MIT alumnus and future professor Claude Shannon — was dominated by research on error-correcting codes: How do yo ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 15, 2012 |
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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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Nokia N900 now available in US
Nokia today announced that the highly anticipated Nokia N900 is now on sale in the United States and shipping to consumers who jumped on the opportunity to be among the first to pre-order the Maemo-powered ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 18, 2009 |
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How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future
In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Telecoms groups fight back against free messaging
Just past the security gate for the world's largest cell phone trade show in Barcelona, executives of big mobile carriers can't avoid walking past a booth they would probably rather not see: It's for "Pinger," ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Worldwide mobile data traffic to rocket: Cisco
The amount of data sent to or from mobile gadgets around the world annually will rocket to hit the equivalent of 33 billion full-length DVD films by the year 2016, computer networking titan Cisco forecast ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Researcher finds 'network privacy' an online oxymoron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer science professor says he only needs a mite of information to fill in Facebook users' personal data -- and he has created the algorithm to back it up.
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable size
Two decades ago a renowned statistician described a computer data set of 1 billion bytes as "huge" and 10 trillion bytes as "ridiculous."
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 14, 2009 |
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