Computers and Internet News

April 27, 2024

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From Disorder to Order: Flocking Birds and 'Spinning' Particles

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it. The discovery not only extends the concept of active ...

Computer Scientists Unveil Novel Attacks on Cybersecurity

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in ...

Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits

Apr. 24, 2024 — A new technique can generate batches of certain entangled states in a quantum processor. This advance could help scientists study the fundamental quantum property of entanglement and enable them to build larger and more complex quantum ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that this 'foundry' model can also be applied to the field of flexible, ...

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Super Mario Hackers' Tricks Could Protect Software from Bugs

Apr. 23, 2024 — Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...

This Tiny Chip Can Safeguard User Data While Enabling Efficient Computing on a Smartphone

Apr. 23, 2024 — A new chip can efficiently accelerate machine-learning workloads on edge devices like smartphones while protecting sensitive user data from two ...

Manipulating the Geometry of 'Electron Universe' in Magnets

Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a unique property, the quantum metric, within magnetic materials, altering the 'electron universe' geometry. This distinct electric signal challenges traditional ...

2D Materials Rotate Light Polarization

Apr. 22, 2024 — Physicists have shown that ultra-thin two-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide can rotate the polarization of visible light by several degrees at certain wavelengths under small magnetic ...

Compact Quantum Light Processing

Apr. 19, 2024 — An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons ...

Teaching a Computer to Type Like a Human

Apr. 18, 2024 — A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting ...

Skyrmions Move at Record Speeds: A Step Towards the Computing of the Future

Apr. 18, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s. Anticipated as future bits in computer memory, ...

Crucial Connection for 'Quantum Internet' Made for the First Time

Apr. 16, 2024 — Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum ...

Quantum Precision: A New Kind of Resistor

Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Hall ...

Computer Scientists Show the Way: AI Models Need Not Be SO Power Hungry

Apr. 3, 2024 — The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising performance. They ...

Computer Vision Researcher Develops Privacy Software for Surveillance Videos

Apr. 25, 2024 — Computer vision can be a valuable tool for anyone tasked with analyzing hours of footage because it can speed up the process of identifying individuals. For example, law enforcement may use it to ...

New Computer Vision Tool Wins Prize for Social Impact

Apr. 11, 2024 — A team of computer scientists working on two different problems -- how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks -- recently announced ...

Breakthrough Promises Secure Quantum Computing at Home

Apr. 11, 2024 — The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises ...

Quantum Breakthrough When Light Makes Materials Magnetic

Apr. 10, 2024 — The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now, researchers have succeeded in demonstrating for the very first time ...

New Method of Measuring Qubits Promises Ease of Scalability in a Microscopic Package

Apr. 10, 2024 — The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that qubits are measured. A research group introduces a new ...

New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels

Apr. 9, 2024 — A team has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state -- an exotic quantum phenomenon that could help researchers advance quantum ...

Protecting Art and Passwords With Biochemistry

Apr. 8, 2024 — A new molecular test method helps to prove the authenticity of works of art. The new method could also help to make passwords secure against quantum ...

Chemical Reactions Can Scramble Quantum Information as Well as Black Holes

Apr. 5, 2024 — A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...

Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors

Apr. 4, 2024 — An international team including researchers from the University of W rzburg has succeeded in creating a special state of superconductivity. This discovery could advance the development of quantum ...

100 Kilometers of Quantum-Encrypted Transfer

Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers have taken a big step towards securing information against hacking. They have succeeded in using quantum encryption to securely transfer information 100 kilometers via fiber optic cable ...

Research Reveals Language Barriers Limit Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Resources

Apr. 1, 2024 — Non-English speaking internet users share the same concern about cyber threats and the same desire for online safety as any other individual. However, they are constrained by a lack of culturally and ...

A New Type of Cooling for Quantum Simulators

Mar. 27, 2024 — Quantum simulators are quantum systems that can be controlled exceptionally well. They can be used to indirectly learn something about other quantum systems, which cannot be experimented on so ...

Bullseye! Accurately Centering Quantum Dots Within Photonic Chips

Mar. 26, 2024 — Researchers have now developed standards and calibrations for optical microscopes that allow quantum dots to be aligned with the center of a photonic component to within an error of 10 to 20 ...

Scientists Deliver Quantum Algorithm to Develop New Materials and Chemistry

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists published the Cascaded Variational Quantum Eigensolver (CVQE) algorithm in a recent article, expected to become a powerful tool to investigate the physical properties in electronic ...

The World Is One Step Closer to Secure Quantum Communication on a Global Scale

Mar. 25, 2024 — Researchers have brought together two Nobel prize-winning research concepts to advance the field of quantum communication. Scientists can now efficiently produce nearly perfect entangled photon pairs ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and stability, potentially leading to smaller, faster, and ...

Novel Quantum Algorithm for High-Quality Solutions to Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Mar. 25, 2024 — Conventional quantum algorithms are not feasible for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) with constraints in the operation time of quantum computers. To address this issue, researchers ...

Semiconductors at Scale: New Processor Achieves Remarkable Speed-Up in Problem Solving

Mar. 25, 2024 — Annealing processors are crucial for solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, they face scalability challenges due to the complexity of required architecture. TUS researchers have now ...

Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory

Mar. 25, 2024 — In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...

AI Can Now Detect COVID-19 in Lung Ultrasound Images

Mar. 20, 2024 — Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows. The findings boost AI-driven medical ...