Cyberattack on top Indian hospital highlights security risk
The leading hospital in India's capital limped back to normalcy on Wednesday after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks.
Dec 7, 2022
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News tagged with digital systems
Internet
Study details scale of human labor needed to keep 'the cloud' aloft
The representation of cloud technology as an automated realm powered by ethereal data flows fails to do justice to the exhaustive human effort that is required to keep the data centers behind it running.
Nov 30, 2022
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Business
Is the digital dollar coming soon?
The United States is considering issuing a digital dollar, which would be backed by the nation's central bank and could help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system. Several financial institutions, ...
Nov 21, 2022
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Internet
Why Meta's virtual-reality avatars are finally getting legs
Why is it so hard to build a metaverse avatar—a visual representation of ourselves in the digital world—that walks on two legs?
Oct 12, 2022
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Telecom
Here's the real reason to turn on airplane mode when you fly
We all know the routine by heart: "Please ensure your seats are in the upright position, tray tables stowed, window shades are up, laptops are stored in the overhead bins and electronic devices are set to flight mode."
Sep 20, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Three questions about quantum computing and secure communications
A radically different type of computing technology under development, known as quantum computing, could in theory decode secure communications and jeopardize military communications, critical infrastructure, and financial ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Computer Sciences
New encryption tool is designed to thwart quantum computers
An encryption tool co-created by a University of Cincinnati math professor will soon safeguard the telecommunications, online retail and banking and other digital systems we use every day.
Aug 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Toyota is working with a US lab to build a fuel-cell power generator
Toyota Motor North America is working on the installation of a hydrogen-based fuel cell power generator at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's campus in Arvada, Colo.
Aug 25, 2022
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Computer Sciences
How complex is your life? Computer scientists found a way to measure it
Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler famously quipped: "People aren't dumb, the world is hard."
Aug 10, 2022
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Software
Radar gets a major makeover
If radars wore pants, a lot of them would still be sporting bell-bottoms.
Jul 19, 2022
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