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New research uses a novel, computer based strategy to identify potential anti-cancer drugs, including one that targets the third most common p53 mutation in human cancer, p53-R175H. The number of new cancer patients harboring this mutation in the United States who would potentially benefit from this drug is estimated to be 30,000 annually.

The data-routing techniques that undergird the Internet could increase the efficiency of multicore chips while lowering their power requirements. Today, a typical chip might have six or eight cores, all communicating with each other over a single bundle of wires, called a bus. With a bus, however, only one pair of cores can talk at a time, which would be a serious limitation in chips with hundreds or even thousands of cores, which many electrical engineers envision as the future of computing.

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IBM's pre-configured, pre-tested clusters take the uncertainty out of multi-system deployments. Regardless of how good the idea, IBM didn't think of this first. It is yet another legacy of Digital...

A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.

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

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