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Why the Simplex Method, at Age 75, is Still the Go-To Algorithm
Daniel A. Spielman and colleague Shang-hua Teng solved the mystery of the Simplex Method using a technique called smoothed analysis… From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Google Boosts Handwriting Feature in Google Translate
With Google Translate's new handwriting tool, users can draw an unfamiliar word or character on their Android smartphone or tablet and get a translation.
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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Here Come the Arabic, Russian, and Chinese Net Addresses
ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it has signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names...
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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Fast Fiber: Apps Coming at 70 Percent the Speed of Light
The speed of data transfer will rise dramatically as Gigabit Ethernet grows increasingly available.
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The Next Big Thing in Tech: Augmented Reality
Augmented reality technologies have been in development in university labs and small companies for almost 50 years.
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'blue Waters' Supercomputer Helps Crack Hiv Code
Researchers used the Blue Waters supercomputer to discover the structure of the HIV capsid.
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...
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Google Search Scratches Its Brain 500 Million Times a Day
Google processes about 100 billion search requests a month, and about 15 percent of them take longer to process because the request is totally new to it.
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Crowdsourced Videos, Photos Could Aid Boston Blast Investigations
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...
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Apple's iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds' Surveillance
Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government...
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Dhs Built Domestic Surveillance Tech Into Predator Drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...
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Feds Crack Down on Mobile-Phone Spammers
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...
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Big Blue, Big Bang, Big Data: Telescope Funds Computing R&d
IBM wants to advance supercomputing technology in processing, optical communications, and memory by using the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope.
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Why Teens Are Tiring of Facebook
To understand where teens like to spend their virtual time nowadways, just watch them on their smartphones.
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Vint Cerf Sees an 'Interspecies Internet' to Talk With Animals
Technology evangelists have proposed a new inter-species Internet that would facilitate communication between humans and animals.
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Amateur Effort Finds New Largest Prime Number
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.
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What It Really Takes to Make a Flexible Phone
Had Dr. Dipak Chowdhury known just how accident-prone I really am, he never would have handed over the 0.1-millimeter sheet of glass for me to bend between my fingers...
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David Gelernter: Bring on the 'stream Browser'
Yale University professor David Gelernter recently predicted the end of current Web and search technology as the focus shifts from a space-based Web to a time-based...
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