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January 5, 2018 Artificial intelligence eats chess computers for lunch
After 25 years of intermittent seriousness, I’m a mediocre tournament chess player. Grandmasters play at a level that beggars my comprehension. But grandmasters, since the second Clinton administration, have looked like clowns against chess computers. Now AlphaZero, a digital doohickey from DeepMind—Google’s AI operation—has made a fool of Stockfish, the strongest “traditional” chess program. Four […]
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January 5, 2018 Want to set up a network of Raspberry Pi computers? Here’s how to do it
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new tool to make it simple to set up a network of the $35 computers in a business or a classroom. The PiServer software allows networks of Raspberry Pi computers to be set up without the need to configure and update each device separately. The Raspberry Pi Foundation […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 21, 2017 Millions of Computers Affected By Intel Firmware Flaws
Security experts are awaiting more details from chipmaker Intel about two classes of vulnerabilities in remote management software and firmware that could put an organization’s most trusted data at risk. See Also: Ransomware: The Look at Future Trends The vulnerabilities – affecting enterprise and consumer computers – exist in a variety of chips that Intel has […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 21, 2017 The Future of Bitcoin is Threatened by Quantum Computers
A Different Kind of Computing While much of the world is captivated by the meteoric rise of bitcoin’s value, others are focused on the technology behind the cryptocurrency: blockchain. The decentralized digital ledger tech is built upon a peer-to-peer network, and it is far more secure than the centralized systems used by traditional banks and financial […]
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November 21, 2017 Hacking of car’s internal computers can kill millions, risk national security: Expert
Car hacking should be considered a national security issue, as hackers can “kill millions” of people using hijacked cars, warned an expert. Deaths are inevitable within five years if car manufacturers do not rush to solve cybersecurity issues and fix vulnerabilities in technology, Justin Cappos, a computer scientist at New York University, was quoted as […]
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November 14, 2017 Manitowoc homeless man claims to work at Menards, asks to use store computers
MANITOWOC – A homeless man was arrested early Sunday morning at Menards after pretending to be an employee and tried to access the store computers. A report from Manitowoc Police Department said Jazzmar A. Turner, 23, entered the store, 5120 Calumet Ave., at about 6:30 a.m. from an employee entrance, and said he was a worker “from the […]
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November 14, 2017 What life will be like when the computers disappear
What happens when the computers around you all but disappear? Tiny sensors built into walls, household products, what you’re wearing, and perhaps your own body will make computers invisible to the eye, but responsive to a gesture, voice, and perhaps your movement as you walk into a room. It is still very early, but the era of ambient […]
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November 14, 2017 IBM announces new advanced quantum computers
IBM has announced hitting a big milestone in the ongoing race of building the most powerful quantum computer. Dario Gil, who leads IBM’s quantum computing and artificial intelligence research division, said last week that the company’s scientists have successfully built and measured a processor prototype with 50 quantum bits, known as qubits. Gil says it’s […]
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November 9, 2017 Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin, but fixes are available now
An international group of quantum boffins reckons Bitcoin could be broken by the year 2027. The researchers from Singapore, Australia and France say that scenario represents the worst case, and would see a quantum computer able to run Shor’s algorithm against the cryptocurrency’s protective elliptic curve signature quicker than the 10 minutes Bitcoin needs to […]
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November 9, 2017 Computers trained to solve crimes by bingeing on TV drama
Computers are being trained to solve problems by bingeing on episodes of a popular TV crime drama. Scientists from the University of Edinburgh mapped footage, script and background sounds from five seasons of Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) into a machine-readable format. The data was fed into a computer model that learned to process the plot as each episode unfolded, […]
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November 9, 2017 Quantum Computers Pose Imminent Threat to Bitcoin Security
Bitcoin is taking the world by storm. The decentralized digital currency is a secure payment platform that anybody can use. It is free from government interference and operated by an open, peer-to-peer network. This independence is one reason Bitcoin has become so popular, causing its value to rise steeply. At the beginning of 2017, a single […]
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October 23, 2017 Google Debuts Software to Open Up Quantum Computers for Chemists
Google unveiled software aimed at making it easier for scientists to use the quantum computers in a move designed to give a boost to the nascent industry. The software, which is open-source and free to use, could be used by chemists and material scientists to adapt algorithms and equations to run on quantum computers. It […]