Computers and Internet News

December 5, 2023

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AI Networks Are More Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks Than Previously Thought

Dec. 4, 2023 — Artificial intelligence tools hold promise for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to the interpretation of medical images. However, a new study finds these AI tools are more vulnerable ...

2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for AI Hardware

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers demonstrated monolithic 3D integration of layered 2D material into novel processing hardware for artificial intelligence computing. The new approach provides a material-level solution for fully integrating many functions into a single, ...

Straining Memory Leads to New Computing Possibilities

Nov. 30, 2023 — A team of researchers developed a new form of computing memory that is fast, dense, and low-power by strategically straining materials that are as thin as a single layer of ...

A Single Bitcoin Transaction Could Cost as Much Water as a Backyard Swimming Pool

Nov. 29, 2023 — Cryptocurrency mining uses a significant amount of water amid the global water crisis, and its water demand may grow further. Researchers provides the first comprehensive estimate of Bitcoin's water ...

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Quantum Tool Opens Door to Uncharted Phenomena

Nov. 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a new tool for the measurement of entanglement in many-body systems and demonstrated it in experiments. The method enables the study of previously inaccessible physical ...

Nextgen Computing: Hard-to-Move Quasiparticles Glide Up Pyramid Edges

Nov. 28, 2023 — A new kind of 'wire' for moving excitons could help enable a new class of devices, perhaps including room temperature quantum ...

Measuring Long-Term Heart Stress Dynamics With Smartwatch Data

Nov. 27, 2023 — Biomedical engineers have developed a method using data from wearable devices such as smartwatches to digitally mimic an entire week's worth of an individual's heartbeats. The new 'digital twins' ...

How Heat Can Be Used in Computing

Nov. 27, 2023 — Physicists have demonstrated that, combining specific materials, heat in technical devices can be used in computing. Their discovery is based on extensive calculations and simulations. The new ...

Hybrid Transistors Set Stage for Integration of Biology and Microelectronics

Nov. 22, 2023 — Researchers create transistors combining silicon with biological silk, using common microprocessor manufacturing methods. The silk protein can be ...

First Experimental Evidence of Hopfions in Crystals Opens Up New Dimension for Future Technology

Nov. 22, 2023 — Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have become a hot and challenging research topic in recent years. New findings open up new ...

Medical AI Tool Gets Human Thumbs-Up

Nov. 21, 2023 — A new artificial intelligence computer program can generate doctors' notes so well that two physicians couldn't tell the difference, according to an early study from both ...

Breakthrough in Tackling Increasing Demand by 'Internet of Things' on Mobile Networks

Nov. 20, 2023 — A novel technology to manage demands on mobile networks from multiple users using Terahertz frequencies has been developed by computer ...

New Computer Code for Mechanics of Tissues and Cells in Three Dimensions

Nov. 20, 2023 — Biological materials are made of individual components, including tiny motors that convert fuel into motion. This creates patterns of movement, and the material shapes itself with coherent flows by ...

Future of Brain-Inspired AI as Python Code Library Passes Major Milestone

Nov. 17, 2023 — An open source code library for brain-inspired deep learning, called 'snnTorch,' has surpassed 100,000 downloads and is used in a wide variety of projects. A new paper details the code and offers a ...

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Diamonds and Rust Help Unveil 'Impossible' Quasi-Particles

Dec. 5, 2023 — Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles -- isolated magnetic charges -- in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to power greener and faster computing ...

The Mind's Eye of a Neural Network System

Nov. 16, 2023 — A new tool, based on topology, makes finding the areas where neural networks are confused as simple as spotting mountaintops from an airplane. The ability to spot and address those areas of confusion ...

New Twist on AI Makes the Most of Sparse Sensor Data

Nov. 14, 2023 — An innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) enables reconstructing a broad field of data, such as overall ocean temperature, from a small number of field-deployable sensors using ...

Keep It Secret: Cloud Data Storage Security Approach Taps Quantum Physics

Nov. 14, 2023 — Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers, and a team is now merging quantum physics with mature cryptography and storage techniques to achieve a cost-effective cloud storage ...

Twisted Magnets Make Brain-Inspired Computing More Adaptable

Nov. 13, 2023 — Researchers used chiral (twisted) magnets as their computational medium and found that, by applying an external magnetic field and changing temperature, the physical properties of these materials ...

Scientists Use Quantum Biology, AI to Sharpen Genome Editing Tool

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to ...

Neuromorphic Computing Will Be Great... If Hardware Can Handle the Workload

Nov. 6, 2023 — Scientists believe they may have discovered a way to rework the hardware of AI. By mimicking the synapses of the human ...

What a '2D' Quantum Superfluid Feels Like to the Touch

Nov. 2, 2023 — Researchers have discovered how superfluid helium 3He would feel if you could put your hand into it. The interface between the exotic world of quantum physics and classical physics of the human ...

Optical-Fiber Based Single-Photon Light Source at Room Temperature for Next-Generation Quantum Processing

Nov. 2, 2023 — Single-photon emitters quantum mechanically connect quantum bits (or qubits) between nodes in quantum networks. They are typically made by embedding rare-earth elements in optical fibers at extremely ...

Nanowire 'Brain' Network Learns and Remembers 'on the Fly'

Nov. 1, 2023 — Like a collection of 'Pick Up Sticks', this neural network has passed a critical step for developing machine intelligence. For the first time, a physical neural network has successfully ...

New Techniques Efficiently Accelerate Sparse Tensors for Massive AI Models

Oct. 31, 2023 — New computational techniques, 'HighLight' and 'Tailors and Swiftiles,' could dramatically boost the speed and performance of high-performance computing applications like graph ...

Late Not Great -- Imperfect Timekeeping Places Significant Limit on Quantum Computers

Oct. 30, 2023 — Quantum physicists show that imperfect timekeeping places a fundamental limit to quantum computers and their applications. The team claims that even tiny timing errors add up to place a significant ...

Accelerating AI Tasks While Preserving Data Security

Oct. 30, 2023 — SecureLoop is a new search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. ...

Novel Device Promotes Efficient, Real-Time and Secure Wireless Access

Oct. 27, 2023 — Researchers have created new technology for more accessible, real-time wireless ...

Controlling Waves in Magnets With Superconductors for the First Time

Oct. 26, 2023 — Quantum physicists have shown that it's possible to control and manipulate spin waves on a chip using superconductors for the first time. These tiny waves in magnets may offer an alternative to ...

Major Milestone Achieved in New Quantum Computing Architecture

Oct. 26, 2023 — Researchers report a significant advance in quantum computing. They have prolonged the coherence time of their single-electron qubit to an impressive 0.1 milliseconds, nearly a thousand-fold ...

Energy-Saving AI Chip

Oct. 26, 2023 — A computer scientist has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. The researcher applies a new computational paradigm using special ...

Using Sound to Test Devices, Control Qubits

Oct. 25, 2023 — Researchers have developed a system that uses atomic vacancies in silicon carbide to measure the stability and quality of acoustic resonators. What's more, these vacancies could also be used for ...

Adaptive Optical Neural Network Connects Thousands of Artificial Neurons

Oct. 23, 2023 — Physicists working with computer specialists have developed a so-called event-based architecture, using photonic processors. In a similar way to the brain, this makes possible the continuous ...

Electrical Control of Quantum Phenomenon Could Improve Future Electronic Devices

Oct. 19, 2023 — A new electrical method to conveniently change the direction of electron flow in some quantum materials could have implications for the development of next-generation electronic devices and quantum ...

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