Pi has been calculated out to 31.4 trillion decimals, Google announces on Pi Day
Just in time for Pi Day, a new world record has been set for calculating the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Mar 15, 2019
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Hardware
Wireless, ultrathin 'skin VR' to provide a vivid, personalized touch experience in the virtual world
Enhancing the virtual experience with the touch sensation has become a hot topic, but today's haptic devices remain typically bulky and tangled with wires. A team led by the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) researchers ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Hardware
AMD processors susceptible to security vulnerabilities, data leaks
Graz University of Technology researchers recently revealed that AMD CPUs dating as far back as the early 2010s are susceptible to side channel attacks. Researchers have now demonstrated that a pair of infiltration approaches—collectively ...
Mar 10, 2020 report
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Robotics
Using a machine learning technique to make a canine-like robot more agile and faster
A team of researchers with Robotic Systems Lab in Switzerland and Intelligent Systems Lab in Germany and the U.S. has found a way to apply machine learning to robotics to give such machines greater abilities. In their paper ...
Jan 17, 2019 report
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Security
Tester eyes unhackable claim on USB flash drive
When the unhackable turns hackable you know there will be lots of noise. Case in point: The eyeDisk USB flash drive. Passwords exposed in clear text were discovered.
May 12, 2019 weblog
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Team builds first hacker-resistant cloud software system
Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud. For businesses like Amazon, ensuring the safety and security of the data of its millions ...
May 25, 2021
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Google Cloud announces enhanced Confidential Computing
Amid ever-increasing demands for privacy and security for highly sensitive data stored in the cloud, Google Cloud announced this week the creation of Confidential Computing.
Jul 17, 2020 report
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Software
GitHub is investigating a crypto-mining campaign exploiting its server infrastructure
The Record, the news branch of the threat intelligence company Recorded Future, has reported that GitHub is currently looking into multiple attacks against its cloud infrastructure. These attacks have enabled cybercriminals ...
Apr 6, 2021 report
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Internet
ChatGPT user in China detained for creating and spreading fake news, police say
Chinese police said they recently detained a ChatGPT user for allegedly using the AI-powered chatbot to create a fake news story about a nonexistent train crash. It's one of the first enforcement actions under a recently ...
May 11, 2023
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Security
Windows Sandbox offers safe zone if app looks suspicious
Windows Sandbox is getting a lot of press and for good reason: Windows watchers say it's going to be a safe place to park "hmmm" executables, the ones than could (or could not) be your pathway to malicious software.
Dec 21, 2018 weblog
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