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Stuxnet Virus Targets and Spread Revealed
A powerful internet worm repeatedly targeted five industrial facilities in Iran over 10 months, ongoing analysis by security researchers shows.
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Earth Project Aims to 'simulate Everything'
An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth—from global weather patterns and the spread...
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Code Clues Point to Stuxnet Maker
Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.
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Campaign Builds to Construct Babbage Analytical Engine
A U.K. campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 is gathering steam.
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Pi record Smashed As Team Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit
A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi—and a few digits either side of it.
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.S. Military to Attack Moore's Law for Future Computers
Computers that can perform a quintillion calculations per second are being planned by the U.S. military.
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Neurons to Power Future Computers
Researchers are developing novel computers by mimicking the way that neurons are built and how they talk to each other.
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Mistakes in Silicon Chips to Help Boost Computer Power
Silicon chips that are allowed to make mistakes could help ensure computers continue to get more powerful, say US researchers.
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Seven Atom Transistor Sets the Pace For Future Pcs
A working transistor that contains only seven atoms has been built by a team in Australia. The researchers, led by University of New South Wales professor Michelle...
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Bat Studies to Aid Roving Robots
Researchers at the University of Southampton, Leeds University, and the University of Strathclyde are studying the use of ultrasonic transducers that can be used...
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Chemical Computer That Mimics Neurons to be Created
A team of international researchers is developing a new way of building computing machinery inspired by chemical processes in living systems. The project, led...
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Digital Cloud Plan For City Skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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