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Cell phones have to handle telecommunications and audiovisual processing while maximizing battery life. Digital Signal Processors, or DSPs, use specialized hardware to offload these tasks from the …

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Owning a car in Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive countries, has always been something of a luxury. But costs have now soared to an all time high.

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Denoscription: What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we…

Fluid simulation is a great example of simulating natural phenomena using a feedback system. It approximates complex phenomena represented by equations that are very challenging to solve by breaking them down into multiple relatively simple steps of approximations…

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In 2009, astronomers watched a bizarre mystery unfold. An enormous star, with 25 times the mass of the Sun, faded away and disappeared. Although it had been long theorized, it's believed this was a type of failed supernova, where a giant star imploded into…

Following preliminary objections over Google's data terms, set out back in January by Germany's antitrust watchdog, the tech giant has agreed to make Following preliminary objections against Google's data terms, set out back in January by Germany's antitrust…

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan…