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DARPA plans exascale supercomputer
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled plans to regain the crown as the fastest supercomputer in the world, barely two weeks after China officially wrestled it away with its
China's new supercomputer brings immigration topic to the fore
China took the wraps off its Tianhe-1A supercomputer last week, which at 2.507 petaflops, easily surpassed current world-record holder Cray XT5 Jaguar. With the 36th Top500 Supercomputer list
Is data mining a civil rights violation?
The American Civil Liberties Union says Congress should limit government data-mining efforts because some techniques don't work and many raise serious privacy concerns. Timothy Sparapani, legislative
Department of Energy’s supercomputer breaks petraflop barrier
In
a historical first, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supercomputer has broken
through the landmark barrier of one petaflop - or one quadrillion floating
point operations per second. The feat
was
U.S. border laptop searches approved
A federal appeals court has made it easier for customs officials to search through the contents of a person's laptop. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that agents
H-1B visas top out
The IT community knew that nothing was changing this year for H-1B visas. And so it comes as no surprise that it took just a week for government authorities to announce that the number of visa
Dell takes aim at Panasonic's Toughbook
For years now, Panasonic's Toughbook line of rugged portables has been considered the
H-1B visa notices go digital
The U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services, which processes H-1B visas, is moving to the digital age. And you might say that it's about time. This year, for the first time, it plans
NSA off the hook for wiretapping suit
The National Security Agency should not have to deal with a lawsuit that challenges the propriety of secretly tapping into communications without court-ordered warrants. At least, that is the
Department of Homeland Security discusses own vulnerabilities
On June 20, officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill to discuss the agency's apparent problems in staving off electronic attacks and IT systems
