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Why Youâ€™re Still Smarter Than A Computer

Computers today are smart [1] . Recently, they've mastered the art [2] of one of the most difficult board games. They've proven the...

Tech Q&A: How to deal with a frozen computer, spot a phishing email attack

File photo. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel) How fast is fast enough? Q. My Internet provider is trying to get me to pay for a faster In...

Tiny, blurry pictures find the limits of computer image recognition

Thomas Tolkien [1] Computers have started to get really good at visual recognition. They can sometimes rival humans at recognizing the objec...

Computer Glitch in Ohio Brought Gas Prices to 80 Year Low

Fill her up! Some lucky motorists in Toledo, Ohio were able to purchase gas for less than 20 cents per gallon over the weekend due to a co...

As With Gun Stocks, So It Is With Computer Security

It's an old story. Every mass shooting or warning that "Obama is going to take your guns" sends the stock of gun stocks soarin...

ICYMI: Computer chips cooled by 'blood,' tiny tank and more

Today on In Case You Missed It : IBM Research in Zurich is using fluid to both power and cool computer chips, modeled off of the way th...

LA Hospital Pays Ransom to Computer Hackers

Hacker Locks Hospital's Entire Computer Network, Asks $3.6 Million for Decryption "To improve the quality of our health care ...

Google computer becomes first non-human to qualify as vehicle driver

The letter, dated February 4 and first reported by Reuters [1] , was in response [2] to a request from Alphabet's GOOG [3] , -0.68% ...

Calif. hospital computer system taken hostage by hackers

Last Updated Feb 18, 2016 3:14 AM EST LOS ANGELES -- The FBI is leading the investigation of a hostage situation at a California hosp...

Hospital pays nearly $17G in bitcoins to hackers who disabled computer network

A Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom of nearly $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer networ...

Computer glitch results in $0.17 gas in Ohio

Gas is ominously affordable right now, but it got really cheap in Ohio over the weekend [1] . A computer glitch at a gas station in Toledo ...

How researchers hacked a computer that wasnâ€™t connected to the Internet

Most modern hacking attacks follow a similar pattern: an attacker discovers a computer or Internet database that isn't well-protected, a...

Computer Scientist Warns Automation Is Humanityâ€™s â€œGreatest Challenge Everâ€

Rice University Professor Moshe Vardi [1] not only thinks that smart machines are rapidly making human workers obsolete, but he also believ...

Is D-Waveâ€™s quantum processor really 10â¸ times faster than a normal computer?

One of D-Wave's chips, circa 2011. D-Wave We have been following D-Wave's claims about its quantum hardware at Ars for a number of...