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  Pushing The Limits Of Hard Disk Storage

  October 10, 2005 — Just how much data can we cram onto a hard disk ? In a paper appearing online today in Physical Review Letters, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Professor Harald Brune and his ... > full story
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  Software 'Agents' Could Help Unmask Reality Of Disease Clusters

  September 7, 2005 — Concerns over the privacy of patients could be hampering efforts to spot disease clusters and monitor the health effects of environmental pollution, according to researchers in the latest edition of ... > full story
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  Comprehensive Database Of Computer Vulnerabilities Now Available

  August 11, 2005 — Cyber attackers are constantly scanning the Internet looking for vulnerabilities in computer systems that will enable them to take control and use the systems for illegal or unethical activities such ... > full story
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  NIST Demonstrates Better Memory With Quantum Computer Bits

  August 11, 2005 — Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used charged atoms (ions) to demonstrate a quantum physics version of computer memory lasting longer than 10 seconds -- ... > full story
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  Quantum Decoys Foil Code-Breaking Attempts

  July 18, 2005 — Computer code-makers may soon get the upper hand on code-breakers thanks to a new quantum cryptography method designed at the University of Toronto. Quantum cryptography uses particles of light to ... > full story
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  Fundamental Limitation To Quantum Computers

  July 8, 2005 — Quantum computers that save their data in so-called quantum bits (or qubits) will be confronted with a fundamental limitation. This is the claim made by Dutch theoretical physicists from the ... > full story
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  Sandia Develops Secure Wireless Technology

  July 1, 2005 — Sandia National Laboratories in cooperation with Time Domain Corporation and KoolSpan Inc. has developed a secure wireless Ultra Wideband (UWB) data communication network that can be used to help ... > full story
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  With A Little Help From Your Friends: A New Way To Block Spam

  June 7, 2005 — Friends can help friends block spam -- or at least their computers can. So says a University of Florida computer engineer who has pioneered a new approach to zapping the junk e-mail that slows ... > full story
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  NIST Demonstrates Key Step In Use Of Quantum Computers For Code-Breaking

  June 4, 2005 — A crucial step in a procedure that could enable future quantum computers to break today's most commonly used encryption codes has been demonstrated by physicists at the U.S. Commerce Department's ... > full story
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  New Authentication Code Urged For Digital Data

  June 4, 2005 — The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending a new algorithm for authenticating digital data for federal agencies. Called CMAC (cipher-based message authentication code), ... > full story

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