Category: Computers
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Computer lawyers and judges. Possible?
Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans. [1] But they forget that Law is not just “A + B = C”. Law is about ethics. Law is about human behaviour. Law is about us. And we are NOT computers! How can we let them judge…
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Universe, the Computer…
Using a molecular dimmer switch that smoothly dials up glowing lights in bacteria, researchers can make calculators in living cells that add, subtract, divide, and even do logarithms. [1] These analog computations are much more powerful than those of previous, digital-based biological devices, says study author Timothy Lu, a synthetic biologist at MIT. We make…
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High Frequency Trading, computers, humans…
In markets, as in war and medical research and just about everything else, technology tends to impart an advantage. This is how a single computer program of mysterious origins managed to make up 4 percent of all quote traffic in the U.S. stock market last week while hoarding 10 percent of the bandwidth allowed for trading…
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Quantum computers, solutions, secrets…
D-Wave’s supposed quantum computers have attracted plenty of skepticism alongside some serious interest from huge corporations such as Google and Lockheed Martin. Now recent testing has shown that D-Wave’s machine can indeed beat standard computers head-to-head in solving certain problems. The D-Wave computer performed up to 3600 times faster than a high-performance machine running IBM…
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Smoke! Ehmmm…I meant “Play Tetris”! It is good for you!
Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye – playing the Tetris video game. The McGill University team discovered the popular tile-matching puzzle could train both eyes to work together. [1] It reminds me of the era when we were all convinced that smoking was good for the blood flow…
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