Computer Sciences
Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn't a one-off glitch, but ...
Apr 29, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Computing giant Apple recently announced it was taking steps to protect the more than 1 billion people worldwide who use its iMessage app—from a threat that doesn't yet exist.
Mar 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
According to computational complexity theory, mathematical problems have different levels of difficulty in the context of their solvability. While a classical computer can solve some problems (P) in polynomial time—i.e., ...
Apr 28, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Tohoku University scientists in Japan have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings, ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Computer Sciences
When users want to send data over the internet faster than the network can handle, congestion can occur—the same way traffic congestion snarls the morning commute into a big city.
Aug 4, 2022
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Robotics
A paper published in the April 2022 issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters outlines the AMBER team's method and represents the first instance of combining hybrid zero dynamics (HZD)—a mathematical framework for generating ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Engineering
It's fairly reasonable to assume that an encrypted email can't be seen by prying eyes. That's because in order to break through most of the encryption systems we use on a day-to-day basis, unless you are the intended recipient, ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Combinatorial optimization problems are a class of hard computational problems that are commonly solved by computers for a variety of applications. Combinatorial optimization algorithms, for instance, allow economists to ...
