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Simulations of reality would require less memory on a quantum computer than on a classical computer, new research has shown. The study demonstrates a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers.

Researchers have discovered and neutralized a serious vulnerability present in all versions of Android, the popular operating system developed by Google specifically for smartphones and tablet computers. The vulnerability could have been easily exploited by malicious software applications, with the effect of making devices based on Google's operating system currently on the market completely unusable.

With the Release Preview due in a few weeks, there are still many questions about Windows 8 and Windows RT. They look similar--and share a lot of the same code under the hood--but there...

Can anyone turn around HP or is it all looking a bit like too little too late?

The UK's privacy regulator signals it will initially take a "soft" approach to sites that breach new cookie rules.

India's ultra-modern plan to ID a billion people

Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers. - Chris Pirillo

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. - One of Murphy's Laws of Technology