Computer Sciences
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest posts from the users' friends; the associated images, links, and comments; ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Telecom
The transmission control protocol, or TCP, which manages traffic on the Internet, was first proposed in 1974. Some version of TCP still regulates data transfer in most major data centers, the huge warehouses of servers maintained ...
Mar 22, 2017
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Internet
Elon Musk's social media platform X has made audio and video calling capabilities available to all users, not just those with paid accounts. But a privacy issue has emerged from the rollout.
Mar 5, 2024
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Business
In a recent study published in Blockchain: Research and Applications, researchers have developed a protocol called Privacy Pools that enhances privacy on blockchain transactions while complying with regulatory standards.
Feb 27, 2024
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Security
During the past year, large language models (LLMs) have become incredibly adept at generating synthesizing information and producing humanlike outputs. LLMs are likened to digital librarians, as they have been trained on ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Engineering
A research team has successfully developed an environmentally friendly refrigerant compressor using an electrochemical method instead of a mechanical method. The development is published in Renewable Energy.
Nov 24, 2023
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Computer Sciences
EPFL researchers have developed a new distributed algorithm that, for the first time, solves one of the key performance and reliability problems affecting most of the currently-deployed consensus protocols. The work has been ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on a global scale. Nevertheless, the significant surge in demand for PEV charging in particular regions or during certain ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Internet
Senegal's government has shut down internet access in response to protests about the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. This is a tactic governments are increasingly used during times of political contention, ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Business
Bitcoin is probably the best-known cryptocurrency in the world today—but there are many others, each implementing and offering different technical features. For exchanging a cryptocurrency for another, so-called "bridges" ...
Jun 26, 2023
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