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September 24, 2023

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Not Too Big: Machine Learning Tames Huge Data Sets

Sep. 11, 2023 — A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer's available memory by identifying a massive data set's key features and dividing them into manageable batches that don't choke computer hardware. The ...

Better Cybersecurity With New Material

Sep. 4, 2023 — Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption. The researchers behind the study believe that the new technology paves the way for a new type ...

Pros and Cons of ChatGPT Plugin, Code Interpreter, in Education, Biology, Health

Aug. 25, 2023 — Researchers see potential in educational settings for the newest official ChatGPT plugin, called Code Interpreter, they've found limitations for its use by scientists who work with biological data ...

How Randomized Data Can Improve Our Security

Aug. 9, 2023 — With an innovative approach, scientists are creating new standards for data security in the cache of electronic ...

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Smart Devices: Putting a Premium on Peace of Mind

Aug. 7, 2023 — The White House has announced plans to roll out voluntary labeling for internet-connected devices like thermostats and baby monitors that meet certain cybersecurity standards. A new survey of U.S. ...

Why Computer Security Advice Is More Confusing Than It Should Be

July 25, 2023 — If you find the computer security guidelines you get at work confusing and not very useful, you're not alone. A new study highlights a key problem with how these guidelines are created, and outlines ...

Solving Rare Disease Mysteries ... and Protecting Privacy

July 10, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a new way of linking personal records and protecting privacy. The first application is in identifying cases of rare genetic disorders. There are many other potential ...

Evaluating Cybersecurity Methods

June 28, 2023 — Researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the effectiveness of defense schemes that seek to limit a hacker's ability to learn secret information by ...

How Secure Are Voice Authentication Systems Really?

June 27, 2023 — Computer scientists have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six ...

'Toggle Switch' Can Help Quantum Computers Cut Through the Noise

June 26, 2023 — What good is a powerful computer if you can't read its output? Or readily reprogram it to do different jobs? People who design quantum computers face these challenges, and a new device may make them ...

Quantum Computers Are Better at Guessing, New Study Demonstrates

June 5, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a quantum speedup over the most efficient classical computer algorithm possible for what is believed to be the first time. The accomplishment was performed on an IBM ...

Two Qudits Fully Entangled

Apr. 20, 2023 — Recently quantum computers started to work with more than just the zeros and ones we know from classical computers. Now a team demonstrates a way to efficiently create entanglement of such ...

Absolute Zero in the Quantum Computer

Apr. 4, 2023 — Absolute zero cannot be reached -- unless you have an infinite amount of energy or an infinite amount of time. Scientists in Vienna (Austria) studying the connection between thermodynamics and ...

Qubits Put New Spin on Magnetism: Boosting Applications of Quantum Computers

Mar. 17, 2023 — Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic ...

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New Breakthrough Enables Perfectly Secure Digital Communications

Mar. 7, 2023 — Researchers have achieved a breakthrough to enable 'perfectly secure' hidden communications for the first time. The method uses new advances in information theory methods to conceal one ...

Are Our Pets Leaking Information About Us?

Feb. 27, 2023 — Pet and animal-related apps are creating cybersecurity risks to their owners, new research has ...

Securing Supply Chains With Quantum Computing

Feb. 14, 2023 — New research in quantum computing is moving science closer to being able to overcome supply-chain challenges and restore global security during future periods of ...

Chromo-Encryption Method Encodes Secrets With Color

Feb. 13, 2023 — In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, E researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to encode ...

Quantum Physicists Make Major Nanoscopic Advance

Jan. 26, 2023 — In a new breakthrough, researchers have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as ...

Researchers Propose Methods for Automatic Detection of Doxing

Dec. 12, 2022 — A new automated approach to detect doxing -- a form of cyberbullying in which certain private or personally identifiable information is publicly shared without an individual's consent or ...

Quantum Algorithms Save Time in the Calculation of Electron Dynamics

Nov. 22, 2022 — Quantum computers promise significantly shorter computing times for complex problems. But there are still only a few quantum computers worldwide with a limited number of so-called qubits. However, ...

Microlaser Chip Adds New Dimensions to Quantum Communication

Nov. 21, 2022 — With only two levels of superposition, the qubits used in today's quantum communication technologies have limited storage space and low tolerance for interference. Engineering's ...

New AI Model Can Help Prevent Damaging and Costly Data Breaches

Nov. 9, 2022 — Privacy experts have created an AI algorithm that automatically tests privacy-preserving systems for potential data ...

New Form of Universal Quantum Computers

Oct. 28, 2022 — Computing power of quantum machines is currently still very low. Increasing it is still proving to be a major challenge. Physicists now present a new architecture for a universal quantum computer ...

New Method to Systematically Find Optimal Quantum Operation Sequences for Quantum Computers Developed

Sep. 2, 2022 — Computer scientists have succeeded in developing a method for systematically finding the optimal quantum operation sequence for a quantum computer. They have developed a systematic method that ...

Why 'Erasure' Could Be Key to Practical Quantum Computing

Aug. 31, 2022 — A new method for correcting errors in the calculations of quantum computers potentially clears a major obstacle to a powerful new realm of ...

From Bits to P-Bits: One Step Closer to Probabilistic Computing

Aug. 29, 2022 — Scientists have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings could ...

Thinking Like a Cyber-Attacker to Protect User Data

Aug. 15, 2022 — Researchers have shown that a component of modern computer processors that enables different areas of the chip to communicate with each other is susceptible to a side-channel attack. An attacker can ...

A Key Role for Quantum Entanglement

July 27, 2022 — A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists has now demonstrated ...

Quantum Cryptography: Hacking Is Futile

July 27, 2022 — An international team has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Moreover, encryption is independent of the quantum device used and therefore even more ...

Quantum Digits Unlock More Computational Power With Fewer Quantum Particles

July 21, 2022 — For decades computers have been synonymous with binary information -- zeros and ones. Now a team has realized a quantum computer that breaks out of this paradigm and unlocks additional computational ...

'Pulling Back the Curtain' to Reveal a Molecular Key to The Wizard of Oz

July 20, 2022 — Many people and companies worry about sensitive data getting hacked, so encrypting files with digital keys has become more commonplace. Now, researchers have developed a durable molecular encryption ...

Radio Waves for the Detection of Hardware Tampering

June 8, 2022 — Up to now, protecting hardware against manipulation has been a laborious business: expensive, and only possible on a small scale. And yet, two simple antennas might do the ...

Toward Error-Free Quantum Computing

May 25, 2022 — For quantum computers to be useful in practice, errors must be detected and corrected. A team of experimental physicists has now implemented a universal set of computational operations on ...

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