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scientificamerican.com/artic…

Fruit Flies Plug into the Matrix

A new budget-friendly virtual-reality system helps researchers study the brains of small animals

scientificamerican.com
nytimes.com/2020/07/31/techn…
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App security issues abound: zdnet.com/article/12k-androi…

12k+ Android apps contain master passwords, secret access keys, secret commands - ZDNET

Comprehensive academic study finds hidden backdoor-like behavior in 6,800 Play Store apps, 1,000 apps from third-party app stores, and almost 4,800 apps pre-installed on user devices.

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Open Source Is Coming to the Chip Business bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird newscientist.com/article/223…

A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird | New Scientist

Pigeons feathers are remarkably complex and understanding how they work has led to the first robot that flies like a pigeon, dubbed PigeonBot

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Optical crypto: telegraph.co.uk/science/2019…

‘Perfect secrecy’ achieved in computing as scientists make first unhackable system

The world’s first uncrackable security system, which even quantum computers could not hack, has finally been developed by researchers.

telegraph.co.uk
wpi.edu/news/wpi-researchers…

WPI Researchers Discover Vulnerabilities Affecting Billions of Computer Chips

Security flaws affecting Intel and STMicroelectronics CPUs could be used to steal or alter data on billions of devices

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Python in the top slot... spectrum.ieee.org/computing/…
Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure – “Risk-aware” traffic engineering could help service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google better utilize network infrastructure. news.mit.edu/2019/reduce-cos…

Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure

Inspired by Wall Street financial theories used to invest in the stock market, MIT and Microsoft researchers developed a “risk-aware” model that improves the performance of cloud-computing infrastr...

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nist.gov/news-events/news/20…

NIST Releases Draft Security Feature Recommendations for IoT Devices

Appliances from refrigerators to thermostats are now available in models that interact with a wireless network, making them easier to control with a computer

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Peter Fox@taswegian17 Jul 2019
Ahh... #ESIPFed now down in the weeds with bit.ly/iIcGLs and data services - bit.ly/2JCO9Go thanks Adam and Doug
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Global temperature trends showyourstripes.info/ #showyourstripes
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Vaccinate software from #CSIRO: csiro.au/en/News/News-releas…
Driverless (mostly) truck: washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Florida’s latest oddity: Semi trucks with nobody inside them

Starsky Robotics has begun testing unmanned, remotely operated trucks on highways. The vehicles are being pitched as a solution for the industry's massive driver shortage.

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Quantum computing advances: scientificamerican.com/artic…

A New "Law" Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year

Quantum computers are improving at a doubly exponential rate

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MIT CSAIL
@MIT_CSAIL29 May 2019
Programming languages ranked by how much electricity they use: bit.ly/ProgEnergy (v/@DavidCasselTNS @thenewstack) #C #C++ #Java #SwiftLang #WednesdayWisdom
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One of the best articles on 'Normal Accidents' and software. Certainly timely. spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/…
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XKCD Comic
@xkcdComic10 Apr 2019
M87 Black Hole Size Comparison xkcd.com/2135/ m.xkcd.com/2135/
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Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence nyti.ms/2UZit13
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