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From Bluetooth earmuffs to a glove that works as a phone, David Reid looks at the trend of wearable devices

Researchers calculate the potential of using graphene for ultrafast wireless communications.

A terabit per second could be done at a range of about one meter using a graphene antenna, which would make it possible to obtain 10 high-definition movies by waving your phone past another device for one second. Akyildiz and colleagues have also calculated that at even shorter ranges, such as a few centimeters, data rates of up to 100 terabits per second are theoretically possible.

Technique to apply bio-inspired data mining tricks may boost antivirus defences

===> They tested out the system with the signatures of 60 computer viruses and 60 worms. This showed the system can be used to create genetic fingerprints for the malware, with far greater accuracy than is currently possible. <===

Die beiden Weltraum-Behörden NASA und ESA arbeiten an einem neuen Protokoll, mit dem Internet-Verbindungen auch zwischen zwei Planten möglich werden sollen.

Das zum Einsatz kommende Kommunikationsprotokoll wurde auf den Namen DTN (Disruption Tolerant Networking) getauft und unterscheidet sich grundlegend von auf der Erde genutzten Protokollen.

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Iltifat Husain has seen an awful lot of sickness and injury during his time as an emergency room doctor, but lately, he’s worried about something new. He’s worried about the ill effects of mobile healthcare apps. There are hundreds of medically themed apps in Apple’s App Store and Google Play, and by most accounts, they’ve…

Now that the FDA is investigating, it will most likely work with app makers to ensure that they post adequate warnings on their unproven software. When products like these are intended to measure vital signs, they need to first be cleared by the FDA before they can be sold in the U.S., says Christopher Rush, a former FDA investigator who is now president of FDA Quality and Regulatory Consultants. And with these “recreational” medical apps, the FDA is going to take steps to ensure that consumers aren’t misled into using them for medical advice. “They’re going to ask the software developers to stop selling it until they get those warnings in place,” he says. If that doesn’t work, the FDA will most likely go straight to Apple and Google and ask them to pull the apps.

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WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order.

They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. emails and telephone calls, the Post said, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents provided it earlier this summer from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, a former systems analyst with the agency.

A newly published study looks at recent advances in quantum measurements, coherent control, and the generation of entangled states, while describing some of the challenges that remain ahead for quantum computing and other applications.

===> In quantum-based sys­tems, the direc­tion of the spin (either up or down) serves as the basic unit of infor­ma­tion, which is anal­o­gous to the 0 or 1 bit in a clas­si­cal com­put­ing sys­tem. Unlike our clas­si­cal world, an elec­tron spin can assume both a 0 and 1 at the same time, a feat called entan­gle­ment, which greatly enhances the abil­ity to do computations. <===

Microsoft zeigt eine Touchscreen-Wandtafel, die darauf angefertigte Grafiken mithilfe von Datenmaterial im Rechner selbst vervollständigt.