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View ArticleHow it works: Iris scanning improves smartphone security
Samsung and other vendors are beginning to incorporate iris scanning into their mobile devices. We examine how this security technology works, its advantages and its drawbacks.
View ArticleAlgorithms and experiments make strange bedfellows at SXSW
Data has to be a two-way street, these panelists agreed.
View ArticleIT jobs market booming in the Southwest
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View ArticleThe 8080 chip at 40: What's next for the mighty microprocessor?
It came out in 1974 and was the basis of the MITS Altair 8800, for which two guys named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote BASIC, and millions of people began to realize that they, too, could have their...
View ArticleBeyond FLOPS: The co-evolving world of computer benchmarking
It used to be simple: Multiply the microprocessor's clock rate by four, and you could measure a computer's computational power in megaFLOPS (millions of floating point operations per second) or...
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