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Protecting Your Data: The Risks of Second-Hand Devices

These devices are often disposed of or sold into the second-hand market by corporations, organizations, and individuals with the data intact. The report's…

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Enhancing Remote Access to Scientific Instruments with Cyberinfrastructure

OSC’s remote instrumentation cyberinfrastructure provides a trio of services: Web portals to provide access to multiple researchers; robust networking to…

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Harnessing Network Anarchy: Empowering User Freedom Online

No hierarchical authority controls the internet and users have the freedom to create information, and leave or rejoin the network at will.Yet the essential…

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Explore the Benefits of Virtual Labs in Research Innovation

Two years ago, researchers in the European-funded project RINGRID – Remote Instrumentation in Next-generation Grids – took on the challenge of mapping out how…

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Decentralizing Control: Reducing Downtime in Industrial Plants

Power stations, oil refineries, factories and other types of industrial plant will, when some more development work has been done, be much better able to work…

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Optical Firewall: A Solution to Internet Security Bottlenecks

As demand for data-intensive services, such as video-on-demand and online gaming increases, telecommunications providers are expanding the high-speed fibre…

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Satellites Near Shannon Limit: Boosting DVB-S2 Efficiency

The performance of DVB-S2 satellite systems is very close to the theoretical maximum, defined by the Shannon Limit. That efficiency could be pushed even…

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New Tool Can Measure ‘Reality’ of Virtual Worlds

A global economy, the rising cost of travel, and increasingly tight budgets have left companies exploring the possible use of virtual worlds to train employees…

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New Framework for Efficient Computation by European Scientists

This is to break down large complex processes into small more manageable components that can then be reused in different applications.There are many possible…

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Dutch Researchers Unveil Websurfers’ Striking Behavior Patterns

Being able to recognise and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for companies. Edgar de Graaf discovered that interesting patterns often contain a…

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CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, Upgrades Cray Supercomputer To One of Europe’s Most Powerful

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq GM: CRAY) and CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, today announced that CSC's Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to…

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DCU Scientists Unravel Elusive Code With Quantum Advancements

The crack which was accomplished using resources at the SFI-Funded Irish Centre for High End Computing was announced at the Post-Quantum Cryptography…

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How Laptops Are Evolving Into Effective Earthquake Sensors

It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too—especially if the signals from lots of them are compared, in order to filter out more…

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Good Code, Bad Computations: Exploring Computer Security Gaps

Two graduate students from UC San Diego’s computer science department—Erik Buchanan and Ryan Roemer—have just published work showing that the process of…

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Personalized Learning: Tailoring Education to Every Student

Every parent believes their child is unique. And they are right. Every pupil has their own individual strengths and weaknesses, and their own particular way of…

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New 3-D Imaging Systems Enhance Face Biometrics Reliability

The system, which uses multimedia technology, was developed by Dr Sooda Ramalingam at the University’s School of Electronic, Communication and Electrical…

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