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From Big Bang to big data: ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of the universe
02 Apr 2012
From Big Bang to big data: ASTRON and IBM collaborate to explore origins of the universe
02 Apr 2012

Research team discovers new quantum encryption method to foil hackers
31 Mar 2012
New research in Canada has found a new quantum encryption method to foil even the most sophisticated hackers
Internet censorship revealed through the haze of malware pollution
By By Jan Zverina | 09 Mar 2012
Internet censorship revealed through the haze of malware pollution
By By Jan Zverina | 09 Mar 2012

The blind codemaker: a boon to communications
10 Feb 2012
New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission, even over fluctuating wireless links.

Tailor-made search tools for the web
02 Feb 2012
For companies, customer feedback is a matter of strategic importance. Smart apps developed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the semantic analysis of user opinions from the web help businesses keep an eye on feedback
Scientist to create safer flight systems
25 Jan 2012
Smart way of saving lives in natural disasters
04 Jan 2012

Data mining without prejudice
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 17 Dec 2011
Most previous attempts to create general data-mining algorithms have tended to privilege some relationships over others. A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large datasets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be
Hardware adapts to the software used
08 Dec 2011
Important step toward computing with light
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 23 Nov 2011

Mimicking the brain, in silicon
By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 15 Nov 2011
For decades, scientists have dreamt of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain’s talent for learning new tasks. Now new computer chip models how neurons communicate with each other at synapses

New hybrid technology could bring 'quantum information systems'
29 Oct 2011
The technology hinges on using single photons — the tiny particles that make up light — for switching and routing in future computers that might harness the exotic principles of quantum mechanics
Stanford software that models human motion travels to museum
By By Andrew Myers | 29 Oct 2011
Virtual reality helps treat social anxiety
24 Oct 2011
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The cost of saying a final goodbye to loved ones in the UK has reached a grim new high, leaving families grappling with unexpected financial burdens.

The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)

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