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Unlike the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, I don’t have any whirring computers churning out supposedly authoritative inflation and growth forecasts. I’m not able to instruct battalions of alleged experts to produce economic models. Nor do I have a highly paid chief… Read More »STEPHEN GLOVER: What’s the point of our Bank of England Governor and his £575,000 salary?
A cardiologist and alleged hacker and ransomware developer has been named in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. According to a statement from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), 55-year-old Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez, MD, is charged with creating and… Read More »Cardiologist Faces US Federal Charges for Hacking, Ransomware
What is SAML and what is it used for? The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that allows security credentials to be shared by multiple computers across a network. It describes a framework that allows one computer to perform some security functions… Read More »How SAML works and enables single sign-on
University of Central Florida researchers are developing new photonic materials that could one day help enable low power, ultra-fast, light-based computing. The unique materials, known as topological insulators, are like wires that have been turned inside out, where the current runs along the outside and… Read More »Researchers create photonic materials for powerful, efficient light-based computing — ScienceDaily
Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python, just to build a simple application such as a calculator or Tic-tac-toe game. Programming also requires substantial debugging skills, which easily frustrates new learners. The… Read More »Nonprogrammers are building more of the world’s software – a computer scientist explains ‘no-code’
California students’ math scores have lagged for years and only gotten worse during the pandemic. The California State Board of Education has the job of adopting K-12 curriculum frameworks in accordance with state education code, which calls for “broad minimum standards and guidelines for educational… Read More »California’s math education needs an update, but not as proposed
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Phison Electronics Corp. (TPEX:8299), a leading provider of NAND controller and NAND storage solutions integration services, announced today that it is successfully deploying the world’s first PCIe 5.0 Redriver IC PS7101 certified by the PCI-SIG Association (Certified integrator list: Link) to help… Read More »Phison Announces Successful Deployment of the World’s First PCI-SIG Certified PCIe 5.0 Redriver IC PS7101
If you listen to the hype surrounding quantum computing, you might think the near future shown in Alex Garland’s sci-fi series devs is upon us — that we have computers complex enough to recreate time and space and reconstruct the human mind. Far from it.… Read More »The Animated Map of Quantum Computing: A Visual Introduction to the Future of Computing
It’s a well-researched oddity of the past few decades is that as technology gets faster, people get slower. Digitization of the workforce has failed to do what it promised and there’s no agreement as to why. Economist Robert Solow summarized the problem in 1987, saying:… Read More »Why don’t computers work? | Financial Times
American officials had not yet been cleared to take the Russian-owned superyacht Amadea from Fiji when agents from the FBI, the US Marshals Service and the Diplomatic Security Service boarded it earlier this month. Documents obtained by CBS News offer new details on the FBI’s… Read More »Code names, “the quickest” jet skis and a “straw man”: Inside the FBI’s seizure of a Russian superyacht