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Google Retires Spdy in Favor of Http/2
Google plans to phase out its SPDY open networking protocol in early 2016 and instead support HTTP/2 in Chrome.
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Survey Indicates Four Out of Five Developers Now se Open Source
Four out of five programmers now use, or recently have used, open source development tools, says a new survey.
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China Develops Facial Recognition Payment System With Near-Perfect Accuracy
The Chinese Academy of Science plans to unveil a face-recognition payment application with near-perfect accuracy next year.
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Which Country Has the World's Best Coders? There's an Axe For That
A team of three Polish programmers won the Hello World Open 2014 worldwide programming competition.
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Google Algorithm Busts Captcha With 99.8 Percent Accuracy
The algorithm used by Google's Street View team to improve Google Maps also can beat CAPTCHAs with 99.8-percent accuracy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Tough Choices For Supercomputing's Legacy Apps
The future of supercomputing holds several significant software challenges, writes Numerical Algorithms Group's Andrew Jones. The first challenge is the rapidly...
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