Consumer & Gadgets
In the category of household pests, few are as difficult to exterminate as bed bugs. Pesticide treatments depend on someone sleeping in the infested room as living bait to lure the creatures out of their hiding places for ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Robotics
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Europe has found that swarms of tiny dumb vibrating robots are capable of carrying out sophisticated actions such as transporting objects or squeezing through ...
Computer Sciences
Time crystals. Microwaves. Diamonds. What do these three disparate things have in common?
Jan 24, 2022
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Software
Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows has been said to have a problem for some time but this week comes news that Google will give it the attention others think the problem quite deserves. Namely, Google is to pay attention ...
Software
While a fix emerged three weeks ago for the security bug affecting the WebKit browser engine used by Apple products such as iPhone and Mac, Apple has yet to implement the fix. Researchers at the security firm Theori have ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers at New York University have recently devised a new cyber defense technique, which works by adding so-called "chaff bugs," non-exploitable bugs, rather than eliminating existing ones. A pre-print version of their ...
Security
A Windows zero-day bug has made the news. By zero-day, it means that a vulnerability has been exposed but it is not yet patched.
Computer Sciences
In 1988 when the internet was still in its infancy, a piece of malware known as the Morris Worm infected nearly 10 percent of the internet over the course of two days, eventually instigating between $100 thousand and $10 ...
Jul 9, 2021
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Software
Automated program repair (APR) is an emerging field of research that sets out to develop methods of fixing software bugs automatically, without intervention by human programmers. After development, APR techniques are typically ...
Software
Software bugs have been a concern for programmers for nearly 75 years since the day programmer Grace Murray Hopper reported the cause of an error in an early Harvard Mark II computer: a moth stuck between relay contacts. ...
