What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
IEEE

Self-Supervised Point Cloud Importance Awareness Network for 2-D LiDAR SLAM

Abstract: Data understanding of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is essential for achieving embodied intelligence in mobile robots. However, the lack of semantic differentiation in 2-D point clouds ...
IEEE

A Multi-Type Feature Fusion Network Based on Importance Weighting for Occluded Human Pose Estimation

Abstract: Human pose estimation is a challenging task in computer vision. Most algorithms perform well in regular scenes, but lack good performance in occlusion scenarios. Therefore, we propose a ...
The New York Times

Why Diamonds Are a Computer Chip’s New Best Friend

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...
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This Is What Bin Laden Was Hiding on His Computer

When U.S. Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011, they uncovered more than a fugitive — they discovered a digital time capsule. His hard drives contained a bizarre mix of terrorist ...