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Quantum Annealing Can Beat Classical Computing in Limited Cases
Quantum annealing computers can run algorithms faster than classical computers in certain instances, but typically not when time… From ACM TechNewsAn 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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Nasa Probe Offers New View of Mercury: Alien World Right in Our Back Yard
The overheated, underappreciated runt of the solar system is finally getting some attention.
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Facebook Ipo: How Does Facebook Make Its Money?
Facebook's IPO filing shows that the company brought in about $3.7 billion in revenue and made $1 billion in profit in 2011.
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Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns
Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...
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Google to Enlist NSA to Help It Ward Off Cyberattacks
The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity. Under...
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Computers Guide Traffic Lights to Reduce Congestion For Commuters, Other Drivers
There probably are just two times when you think about a traffic light. When one just turned yellow. ("Can I make it?") When one has been red for too long. ("Come...
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Now We Know Where We Stand, and It's About Time
America has seen its last Lost Generation. Thanks to an invisible armada of incessantly broadcasting satellites, collectively called the Global Positioning System...
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Metrorail Crash May Exemplify Automation Paradox
The fatal collision of two trains on Washington, D.C., Metro's Red Line may come to symbolize the core problem of automation, which is the relationship between...
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