13-09-22 A Dell customer called to say the couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the send...

13-09-16 Two researchers at UCL Computer Science and the University of Gdansk present a new method for determining the amount of entanglement -- a quantum phenomenon connecting two remote partners, and crucial for quantum technology -- within part of a one-d...

13-08-28 Computer models are used to inform policy decisions about energy, but existing models are generally black boxes that don't show how they work, making it impossible for anyone to replicate their findings. Researchers from North Carolina State Univers...

13-08-15 Computer science researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique to determine which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player (action) real-time strategy (ARTS) games, such as Defense of the Ancients (Dot...

13-08-14 New research shows that a class of materials being eyed for the next generation of computers behaves asymmetrically at the sub-atomic level. This research is a key step toward understanding the topological（拓扑的，地质学的） insulators that may hav...

13-07-04 Subjectivity is problematic when evaluating fingerprints, and quality is in the eye of the examiner. But three computer programs used together can give fingerprint grading unprecedented consistency and objectivity, according to Penn State researcher...

13-05-27 Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a cradle and a...

13-02-18 A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing has proposed a new computational model that may become the architecture for a scalable quantum computer. In a paper to be published in the journal Science this wee...

12-12-25 In 1957, as many as 900,000,000 people went to the cinema, whereas（然而） the number of TV viewers was 400,000,000. Three years later, 500,000,000 cinema-goers vs 500,000,000 TV viewers the same. In 1963, the cinema fell, compared with TV. In 1974,...

12-11-09 Hackerazzi are cybercriminals who hack into the email accounts of celebrities to access and exploit their private information. Hackerazzi derives from paparazzi, a term for photo journalists who doggedly pursue celebrities to take candid pictures an...