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Cracking the 1,000-Core Processor Power Challenge
Researchers are working on solutions to growing power consumption, as mainstream processors are expected to contain hundreds of cores in the near future.
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Swipe, Shake, CTRL Z? Web Spec Aims to End Input Overload
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published the draft of Indie UI, a specification aimed at making it easier for developers to build Web applications that...
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.N. Plans Internet Governance Amid Outcry to Defund IT
A petition to de-fund the United Nation's telecommunications branch recently emerged, just as the ITU was ready to finalize Internet governance plans at the World...
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Israel Launches Cyber Warfare Training Program
Israel is recruiting top students for a new cyberwarfare training program. The program shows how Israel is advancing in the field of cybernetics to develop "high...
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China to nveil Homebrewed Chip in 2013
Longsoon Technology, which is partly funded by the Chinese Academy of Science, will share details about its Godson eight-core processor at the International Solid...
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New Zealand Software Patent Law 'betrays' Developers
A New Zealand politician has advanced a proposed software patent measure that contains an exemption for software embedded in other inventions. Critics say that ...
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IBM Claims Spintronics Breakthrough With 'Waltzing Electrons' Observations
A team from IBM and ETH Zurich University have directly mapped the formation of a spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time, a development that could lead...
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S'pore Develops Chipset For Fast Data Transfer
A microchip developed in Singapore can transmit data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth.
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Osama Bin Laden Didn't Use Encryption: 17 Documents Released
It appears that Osama bin Laden didn’t encrypt any of his computer files. If he had, U.S. authorities probably wouldn’t have been able to do much after confiscating...
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Lack of Training Hinders GP in HPC
Several factors, including the lack of training in parallel programming and support from independent software vendors, are major obstacles keeping general-purpose...
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Researchers Find a New Way to Mix Computers and Neurons
Nerve cell tendrils recently grew through tiny tubes made of semiconductor material in groundbreaking research conducted by University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate...
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Intel: Why a 1,000-Core Chip Is Feasible
Chipmaker Intel has been investigating the issue of scaling the number of cores in chips through its Terascale Computing Research Program, which has so far yielded...
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Chinese Supercomputer Overtakes Jaguar
China's National University of Defense Technology's Tianhe-1A supercomputer has taken the top ranking from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer...
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Inside Stuxnet: Researcher Drops New Clues About Origin of Worm
The mysterious Stuxnet worm took center stage at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference here with a prominent security researcher dropping a raw hint that Israel may...
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ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be 'Worse Than Tsunami'
There needs to be a global cybersecurity peace treaty to avert the threat of international cyberwar, whose effects would be more devastating than a tsunami, says...
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'world's Thinnest' Metal Lines to Spur Device Miniaturization
A group of international scientists have collaborated to create what they say is the world's thinnest and smoothest metallic lines used in electronic components...
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Europe's PRACE HPC Grid Aims for Exaflop Power by 2019
The EC is funding a project to develop a grid of up to six "tier 0" high-performance computing systems and is aiming for a combined computing power in the multi...
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Virtualization Moves Closer to the Desktop
Virtual computing has moved closer with the unveiling of a new client-based hypervisor that allows users to run multiple virtual machines on a single laptop.
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Researchers Develop New Brain-Like Molecular Processor
An international research team from Japan and Michigan Technological University have demonstrated a molecular circuit that can evolve continuously to solve complex...
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