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Record low quantum computer error rates from NIST

NIST, the US’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, has announced a... Read more

1 September, 2011

Matter shines light on quantum data interface at NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it has developed a new way of reading data in a... Read more

7 July, 2010
<endeca_term>NIST</endeca_term> Quick Guide 1.0

NIST Quick Guide 1.0

Essential for Federal IT employees and contractors! NIST 800-53 Revision 3!Talatek NIST Quick Guide for iOS: This app... Read more

24 February, 2012

300 atom quantum simulator smashes qubit record

...group of scientists, working with the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) in the US have built the world’s largest ever quantum simulator... Read more

1 May, 2012
On Security Arguments of the Second Round SHA-3 Candidates

On Security Arguments of the Second Round SHA-3 Candidates

In 2007, the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a call for the design of a new cryptographic hash algorithm... Read more

19 March, 2012
New Attacks on Keccak-224 and Keccak-256

New Attacks on Keccak-224 and Keccak-256

The Keccak hash function is one of the five finalists in NIST's SHA-3 competition, and so far it showed remarkable resistance against... Read more

19 November, 2011
Data-Oriented Performance Analysis of SHA-3 Candidates on FPGA Accelerated Computers

Data-Oriented Performance Analysis of SHA-3 Candidates on FPGA Accelerated Computers

The SHA-3 competition organized by NIST has triggered significant efforts in performance evaluation of cryptographic hardware and software... Read more

19 April, 2011
An Improved Algebraic Attack on Hamsi-256

An Improved Algebraic Attack on Hamsi-256

Hamsi is one of the 14 second-stage candidates in NIST's SHA-3 competition. The only previous attack on this hash function... Read more

19 January, 2011
An Overview of Cryptanalysis Research for the Advanced Encryption Standard

An Overview of Cryptanalysis Research for the Advanced Encryption Standard

Since its release in November 2001, the Advanced Encryption Standard (NIST FIPS-197) has been the subject of extensive cryptanalysis research. The importance... Read more

23 October, 2010
Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on 8 Rounds of the AES Block Cipher Under 192 Key Bits

Meet-in-the-Middle Attack on 8 Rounds of the AES Block Cipher Under 192 Key Bits

...and a user key of 128, 192 or 256 bits, released by NIST for data encryption in the USA; it became an ISO international standard... Read more

20 October, 2010

Data security: Key steps to shredding the printer threat

...a multifunction peripherals security checklist that is also approved and published by Nist. Useful printing featuresBecause there is no single industry standard to certify against... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Louella Fernandes
Absolute Time Corrector 9.0.3222

Absolute Time Corrector 9.0.3222

...time standard set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Absolute Time Corrector queries NIST timeservers using the Internet and then compares... Read more

27 March, 2012
SoundConverter 20120123.0

SoundConverter 20120123.0

...m4v, mat, mat4, mat5, maud, mov, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, mpeg, mpegts, nist, nul, ogg, paf, prc, pvf, raw, redir, rtp, rtsp, s16be, s16le, s8... Read more

29 January, 2012

Scientists propose self-cooling nano-speaker for MRIs

...up to the task. JQI physicist Jake Taylor is quoted in the NIST press announcement here: "We can bounce photons from a laser off that... Read more

26 January, 2012
Live CD Ripper 4.1.0

Live CD Ripper 4.1.0

...popular audio formats including AAC, ACM, AIFF, AU, CAF, FLAC, IRCAM, MP3, NIST, OGG, PAF, PVF, RAW, SVX, VOC, W64, WAV, and WMA. It also... Read more

19 August, 2011

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

1 hour ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

6 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

9 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

12 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

14 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry