39 h. ago From action movies to urban planning, new method for creating large 3D models of urban areas is faster and cheaper

A research team led by Waterloo Engineering has developed a faster, cheaper way to create large-scale, three-dimensional (3D) computer models of urban areas, technology that could impact fields including urban planning, architectural design and filmmaking.

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42 h. ago How the US can mine its own critical minerals, without digging new holes

Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.

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63 h. ago Computer scientists create algorithm to protect videos from quantum hacking

Researchers at FIU's College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers.

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69 h. ago Sightful Spacetop for Windows Review: Spatial Computing Is Here

Paired with a laptop and smart glasses, Sightful's Spacetop for Windows software feels closer to the spatial computing future we were promised than Apple's Vision Pro.

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7 d. ago 'Reborn articles': Simple approach enables direct publication of machine

Despite significant advances in digital technologies, modern scientific results are still communicated using antiquated methods. In nearly 400 years, scientific literature has progressed from physically printed articles to PDFs, but these electronic documents are still text-based and therefore not machine-readable. This means your computer cannot interpret the information they contain without human assistance.

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7 d. ago Private eye accused of hacking American climate activists loses UK extradition fight

The Justice Department has charged Amit Forlit with conspiracy to commit computer hacking, among other crimes.

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9 d. ago Dual scalable annealing processors overcome capacity and precision limits

Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) arise in various fields such as shift scheduling, traffic routing, and drug development. However, they are challenging to solve using traditional computers in a practical timeframe.

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9 d. ago A new computational framework illuminates the hidden ecology of diseased tissues

The MESA method uses ecological theory to map cellular diversity and spatial patterns in tissues, offering new insights into disease progression.

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9 d. ago AI model based on neural oscillations delivers stable, efficient long

Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI) model inspired by neural oscillations in the brain, with the goal of significantly advancing how machine learning algorithms handle long sequences of data.

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9 d. ago Skia technique decodes 'shadow branches' to boost data center efficiency

What happens when trailblazing engineers and industry professionals team up? The answer may transform the future of computing efficiency for modern data centers.

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9 d. ago IBM pledges to spend $150B in the US over the next few years

Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a “more than” $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and “accelerate [IBM’s] role as the global leader in computing,” the company said in a press release Monday. […]

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1 week ago A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do so for some critical optimization tasks.

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1 week ago Cutting the complexity from digital carpentry: System turns simple sketches into digital schematics

Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in concept, the ways to instruct these machines is, in reality, often complex.

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1 week ago Garden of Eden's true location 'can only be' at unusual tourist landmark, new argument claims

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden of Eden lies beneath a popular Egyptian landmark.

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1 week ago Hegseth used Signal app connected to 'dirty line' on computer at Pentagon: Sources

It was connected to the internet on an unsecured commercial line, sources said.

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1 week ago More than 50 House Democrats demand answers after whistleblower report on DOGE

Members of the Congressional Labor Caucus wrote the letter after NPR reported that a whistleblower says DOGE may have removed sensitive labor data and compromised the security of computer systems.

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2 w. ago Algorithm can make AI responses increasingly reliable with less computational overhead

ChatGPT and alike often amaze us with the accuracy of their answers, but unfortunately, they also repeatedly give us cause for doubt. The main issue with powerful AI response engines (artificial intelligence) is that they provide us with perfect answers and obvious nonsense with the same ease. One of the major challenges lies in how the large language models (LLMs) underlying AI deal with uncertainty.

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2 w. ago Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer

Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer  The Washington Post

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2 w. ago A newly developed fast and flexible CPU notification requires no polling

Getting interrupted while at work can cause you to lose your ability to work quickly and effectively. A computer's central processing unit (CPU) core is no different. If the CPU core has to stop what it is working on each time a new task is assigned, the whole system can get bogged down and slow significantly.

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2 w. ago Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non

Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder, but he’s the first to admit he’s not a programmer.  After co-founding AI note-taking app Mem — one of OpenAI’s earliest venture investments — he has now launched a new startup called Adaptive Computer.  Its grandiose mission is nothing less than a complete reimagining of personal computer […]

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