Nitrate deposits in the Arctic remains high even after the turn of the century, despite environmental policies adopted by neighboring countries in the late 20th century to cut nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. [caption id="attachment_14594" align="alignnone"…
New system patches security holes left open by web browsers’ private-browsing [caption id="attachment_14550" align="alignnone" width="636"] Generally, a browser won’t know where the data it downloaded has ended up. Even if it did, it wouldn’t necessarily…
[caption id="attachment_14402" align="alignright" width="367"] Kassem Fawaz UW-MADISON[/caption] Register for an account on just about any website or download an app to your smartphone and you likely will encounter that pesky, “I certify that I’ve read…
Special-purpose chip reduces power consumption of public-key encryption by 99.75 percent, increases speed 500-fold. [caption id="attachment_14399" align="alignnone" width="621"] MIT researchers have built a new chip, hardwired to perform public-key encryption, that consumes only 1/400 as…
Computational method improves the resolution of time-of-flight depth sensors 1,000-fold. [caption id="attachment_13989" align="alignnone" width="639"] Comparing of the cascaded GHz approach with Kinect-style approaches visually represented on a key. From left to right, the original image,…
Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language. [caption id="attachment_13867" align="alignnone" width="639"] Neural nets are so named because they roughly approximate the structure of the human brain. Typically, they’re arranged into layers,…