Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

Illustration by Stephen Farrington Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- World News Trust Jan. 26, 2018 When I began my personal deep dive into the world of distributed ledger technology, blockchain and cryp ...

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen

Study area for the DFW Airport earthquake sequence. Yellow triangles are the 2008-2009 SMU operated stations. Blue asterisks are the earthquakes reported by the 2013-2016 SMU earthquake catalog, indi ...

New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum light | Sabyasachi Barik et al.

Credit: Joint Quantum Institute Feb. 13, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Scientists have created a photonic chip that generates single photons and controls their direction. Optical highways for light are at the h ...

Physicists extend stochastic thermodynamics deeper into quantum territory | Lisa Zyga

Thermodynamic laws that describe heat and energy are being extended to the quantum scale. Source: Pexels. Photograph by Paweł Kadysz Feb. 13, 2018 {Phys.org) -- Physicists have extended one of the mo ...

Capitalism is ending because it has made itself obsolete, former Greek finance minister Yannis Varoufakis says | Tom Embury-Denni

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John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

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Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP

Image by Jose Roberto Navas. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jan. 8, 2018 (AP) -- Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highli ...

Nuclear Calendar -- October 23, 2017 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation October 23, 2017 Oct. 23 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m., "Opportunities for U.S.-Korea Cooperation in Advanced Nuclear: Industrial, R&D, and Other ...

Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future' | Richard Lunt

See-through solar-harvesting applications, such as this module pioneered at Michigan State University, could potentially produce 40 percent of U.S. electricity demand. Credit: Michigan State Universi ...

Three Different Definitions of Blockchain | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops | Margaret Allen

New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum light | Sabyasachi Barik et al.

Physicists extend stochastic thermodynamics deeper into quantum territory | Lisa Zyga

Capitalism is ending because it has made itself obsolete, former Greek finance minister Yannis Varoufakis says | Tom Embury-Denni

John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 | Cindy Cohn

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP

Nuclear Calendar -- October 23, 2017 | FCNL

Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future' | Richard Lunt

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