A joint study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the University at Buffalo, and the University of Toronto has found that a…
Currently available quantum cryptography technology is bulky, expensive and limited to fixed physical locations – often server rooms in a bank.
Thirty lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447, and 228 passengers and crew aboard, from plunging into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1,…
Even today’s encrypted data is vulnerable to technological progress. What privacy is ultimately possible? In the 27 March issue of Nature, the weekly…
Ferroelectric materials have an intrinsic electrical polarization caused by a small shift in the position of some of their atoms that occurs below a critical…
When it comes to data transmission, light is superior to electronics. An ability to transmit data in parallel by utilizing multiple light wavelengths allows…
The semiconductor silicon lies at the heart of the current revolution in electronics and computing. In particular, it can produce compact integrated circuits…
Computer chips have stopped getting faster: The regular performance improvements we've come to expect are now the result of chipmakers' adding more cores, or…
The solution consists of a software platform through which participating companies can work together efficiently and confidentially.
The Canadian technology company of the same name is advertising the machine as a quantum computer. However, whether or not the machine does in fact use quantum…
Telecommunication providers can deliver bandwidth-on-demand at higher profit margins with the Singapore-developed tunable laser
The human relationship with microbial life is complicated. At almost any supermarket, you can pick up both antibacterial soap and probiotic yogurt…
Light waves have the potential to boost the efficiency of conventional electronics by a factor of 100,000.
Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on…
But what IT experts celebrate as a new milestone makes privacy groups skeptical. So far, few people have access to the prototype to test how it can be used in…
Root exploits take over the system administration functions of an operating system, such as Android. A successful Android root exploit effectively gives…
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