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VLSI chips replacing medicine-

“Electroceuticals is a recently coined term that broadly encompasses all bioelectronic medicine that employs electrical stimulation to affect and modify functions of the body. Clinical neural implants such as cochlear implants to restore hearing, retinal implants to restore sight, spinal cord stimulators for pain relief or cardiac pacemakers...

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Meltdown and Spectre-Vulnerabilities in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data

Meltdown and Spectre work on personal computers, mobile devices, and in the cloud. Depending on the cloud provider’s infrastructure, it might be possible to steal data from other customers. Meltdown Meltdown breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program...

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The technology behind Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency

When Bitcoin was unleashed on the world, it filled a specific need. But it wasn’t long before people realized the technology behind Bitcoin—the blockchain—could do much more than record monetary transactions. That realization has lately blossomed into a dazzling and often bewildering array of startup companies, initiatives, corporate alliances,...

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“Throwing Computing Into Reverse.”(IEEE spectrum-Sept-2017)-MICHAEL P. FRANK

The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible   For more than 50 years, computers have made steady and dramatic improvements, all thanks to Moore’s Law—the exponential increase over time in the number of transistors that can be fabricated on an integrated circuit of a given size. Moore’s Law owed its...