A computer network, or simply a network, is a collection of computers and network hardware interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information. When a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in another device, the two devices are said to be networked. A network is a group of devices connected to each other.
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How CAPTCHAs could show if an algorithm’s getting closer to AGI
Creating machines that have the general problem-solving capabilities of human brains has been the holy grain of artificial ...
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Ransomware could interfere with 2020 elections — these basic cybersecurity precautions can minimize the damage
Government computer systems in Hall County, Georgia, including a voter signature database, were hit by a ransomware attack ...
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How knowledge distillation compresses neural networks
If you've ever used a neural network to solve a complex problem, you know they can be enormous in size, containing millions of parameters. For instance, the famous BERT model has about ~110 million. To illustrate the point, this is the number of parameters for the most common architectures ...
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Why training neural networks comes with a hefty price tag
In recent years, deep learning has proven to be an effective solution to many of the hard problems of artificial intelligence. ...
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Adaptive traffic lights trial aims to cut fuel consumption by 20%
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and ...
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How brain-like circuits could push computing power to the next level
For the first time, my colleagues and I have built a single electronic device that is capable of copying the functions of ...
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Why AI needs a physical body to emotionally connect with humans
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, ...
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Sony's new AI agent achieves superhuman Gran Turismo Sport scores
One of the best things about computers is that they can learn just as much from a simulation as they can from so-called 'real ...
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Why AI and human perception are too complex to be compared
Human-level performance. Human-level accuracy. Those are terms you hear a lot from companies developing artificial intelligence ...
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AI models need to be 'interpretable' rather than just 'explainable'
Last November, Apple ran into trouble after customers pointed out on Twitter that its credit card service was discriminating ...
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How to trick deep learning algorithms into doing new things
Two things often mentioned with deep learning are “data” and “compute resources.” You need a lot of both when developing, ...
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This spooky deepfake AI mimics dozens of celebs and politicians
From Donald Trump and Barack Obama to John Oliver and Tupac, Vocodes can generate eerily realistic deepfake soundbites of ...
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What is adversarial machine learning?
To human observers, the following two images are identical. But researchers at Google showed in 2015 that a popular object ...
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Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people
These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and ...
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What is the difference between artificial neural networks and biological brains?
What is the master algorithm that allows humans to be so efficient at learning things? That is a question that has perplexed ...
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Here's what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding
The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human ...
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Research: Artificial neural networks are more similar to the brain than we thought
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial ...
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Our fragile 40-years-old Banking infrastructure can only be saved with AI
IT failures are more common than we think. Admitting that you have a problem means there is a risk in doing business with ...
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The advantages of self-explainable AI over interpretable AI
Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm that works eerily well, making accurate decisions 99.9% of the time, ...
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How to step up your programming skills with Python machine learning
With so many books and online courses on data science and machine learning, it’s very hard to navigate your way and find ...
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Everything you need to know about artificial neural networks
Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. One ...
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Zwift companion app not working? Try this
I’ve had a huge problem with Zwift's “companion app” not working recently — and I’m not alone — but I’ve finally ...
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Everything you need to know about artificial general intelligence
Welcome to Neural Basics, a collection of guides and explainers to help demystify the world of artificial intelligence. From ...
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Scientists used AI to make 44.8 gigapixel copy of historic Rembrandt painting
You can now get intimately familiar with this Rembrandt's historic painting, 'The Night Watch' — without even having to ...
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Scientists found a way to plug adversarial backdoors in deep learning models
Imagine a high-security complex protected by a facial recognition system powered by deep learning. The artificial intelligence ...
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Travelex paid $2.3M in Bitcoin to get its systems back from hackers
Although Travelex did confirm the ransomware attack when it happened, it hadn't previously disclosed whether it paid Bitcoin ...
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Understanding the limits of convolutional neural networks — one of AI's greatest achievements
After a prolonged winter, artificial intelligence is experiencing a scorching summer mainly thanks to advances in deep learning ...
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Mathematician explains how to flatten the curve of COVID-19
People traveling into Australia will now have to self-isolate for 14 days – one of a range of measures announced at the ...
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Scientists need your computing power to find a cure for coronavirus
Your computer can help the fight against the coronavirus. Thanks to a collaboration between the [email protected] Consortium ...
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
An international team of researchers spread out over three labs in Switzerland, Italy, and the UK have successfully joined ...
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Dutch university pays $220K in Bitcoin to alleged Russian hackers
The University of Maastricht has resorted to paying a Bitcoin ransom to hackers who'd taken its computer systems offline ...
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UN suffered a serious hack — and then tried to cover it up
The United Nations suffered a critical breach in its networks last year, and subsequently tried to cover it up. The hackers ...
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Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent
Malicious cryptocurrency miners have double-spent $72,000 worth of BTG by assuming a majority of Bitcoin Gold's hash rate. ...
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5G isn't going to save you from cable broadband anytime soon
Recent proposals by the UK Labour Party to nationalize the country’s cable broadband network prompted debate about the ...
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How binarized networks work — and why they’ll be big for AI in 2020
If a neural network is a Picasso painting, a binarized network is a rough pencil sketch.
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Bitcoin ransomware blamed for New Orleans 'state of emergency'
The city of New Orleans has declared a state of emergency following a ransomware attack that forced computers and servers ...
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What will happen to our memory if we let computers remember everything for us?
When I was a student, in the distant past when most computers were still huge mainframes, I had a friend whose PhD advisor ...
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Watch: Performance-enhancing AI could change baseball forever
Meet Tipper, a convolutional neural network that lives on an Nvidia AI card. Its creator says it can predict whether a baseball ...
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Bitcoin ransomware forces Spanish security firm Prosegur offline
Prosegur has been hit by Ryuk ransomware, the notorious Trojan that encrypts files on a compromised device and typically ...
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Bitcoin whale moves $310 million cryptocurrency fortune — for just $0.32
A Bitcoin whale recently moved 44,000 BTC - a stack worth over $310 million - for a tiny transaction fee of 32 cents. Sucked ...
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AI creates the perfect(ish) Nike commercial after studying 7 years of ads
Working in advertising can't be easy. For every “I'm lovin' it” or “Just Do It” there's thousands of crappy, forgettable ...
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Russian aluminum plant driven to cryptocurrency mining by US sanctions
The squeeze of US sanctions have proven too much for a Russian aluminum refinery, so its pivoting away from metals to mining ...
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ConsenSys acquires Infura, the centralizing tech powering Ethereum dapps
Ethereum-focused software firm ConsenSys has fully acquired Infura, the company that’s previously been described as the ...
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Dark web weed dealers used 'Craigslist of Bitcoin' to launder their illicit profits
Two men have pleaded guilty for conspiring to launder money using Bitcoin after selling marijuana on the dark web.
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Zcash network urged to update nodes immediately to push 'important security fix'
If you're running a Zcash node, you had better go download the latest software and update right now to avoid exposing the ...
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Kim Dotcom pushes token sale to build a blockchain content network... but why?
Kim Dotcom is selling Kimcoins to build a P2P content network powered by blockchain. I don't know why this is necessary either, ...
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More than 60% of Ethereum nodes run in the cloud, mostly on Amazon Web Services
The Big Bad Bezos could hypothetically hurt the Ethereum network if he wanted to, as nearly 25% of all nodes are hosted by ...
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Google’s Parrotron AI helps people with speech impediments talk freely
Google's AI division has developed new speech-to-text software for people with verbal impairments which reduces word error ...
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Blockstream takes on Bitmain with new Bitcoin mining centers (and it’s already getting flak)
Blockstream, the blockchain infrastructure firm that sent a Bitcoin satellite into space, has entered the cryptocurrency ...
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Microsoft: Russian government hackers are targeting IoT devices
Microsoft today warned that Russian government hackers have been using video decoders, printers, and internet of things devices ...
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Ugh, this is what Bitcoin’s hash rate means and why it matters
Bitcoin's hash rate has been reaching all time highs this year. But what is it? What does it mean? And why is it a measurement ...
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Nobody knows when Bitcoin Satoshi Vision’s hard fork for 2GB blocks starts [UPDATED]
Bitcoin Satoshi Vision hard fork to increase its block size limit to 2GB is off to a rocky start, as two different start ...
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Moonday Morning: US college hit by ransomers demanding $2M in Bitcoin
Welcome back to another Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines ...
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7 months after Hash Wars, Bitmain’s BTC.com appears to mine Bitcoin SV
Bitmain's flagship mining pool, BTC.com, has re-appeared on the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision blockchain, an apparent change of ...
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Life can theoretically exist in a 2D universe
The wild and wacky world of physics just keeps getting stranger. A UC Davis physicist recently published research demonstrating ...
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A hacker penetrated NASA's network using a $35 Raspberry Pi
A hacker illegally accessed NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2018 by targeting an off-the-shelf micro-computer called ...
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Bitcoin healthy AF following Zuckbuck reveal, hash rate hits all-time high
Bitcoin is running on more computational power than ever before, proof that it simply doesn't care who or what launches which ...
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3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live
Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making.
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'Crypto-Twitter' is explaining Bitcoin in 280 characters or less
Cryptocurrency fans on Twitter have been challenged: define Bitcoin in a single tweet as effectively as possible. Here are ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin flash-crashed to $75, SIM-swapping on the rise, and more
It’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Stellar’s ‘decentralized’ blockchain crashed for 2 hours and nobody realized
Stellar has a problem with cascading failure, and it's really only a small group of people validating the network even realize ...
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TRON suffered from a critical bug that could’ve crashed its entire blockchain
A recent HackerOne disclosure reveals the TRON network had a pretty nasty security flaw, and a security researcher was paid ...
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Bitcoin has nearly 100,000 nodes, but over 50% run vulnerable code
The number of nodes on the Bitcoin network hovers around 100,000 - which is great for decentralization - but many remain ...
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The SETI screensaver shows us what the internet could've been
When I was twelve years old, I became obsessed with a screen saver. The screen saver pictured above, to be precise; you ...
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New cryptocurrency malware hijacks China's enterprises to mine Monero
Beapy is the next generation of cryptocurrency mining malware, with thousands of machines across Asia already infected to ...
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One mining pool controls a dangerously dominant share of BitcoinSV's hash rate
Calvin Ayre's CoinGeek is approaching 51% of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision's hash rate - which would mean it has huge power over ...
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BitcoinSV's blockchain is struggling with its enormous 128MB blocks
BitcoinSV suffered two 'block re-organizations' overnight, and it could present the perfect environment for 51-percent attackers. ...
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Markets respond to Binance dumping BitcoinSV by dumping even harder
BitcoinSV is trading 20 percent lower today, after several cryptocurrency services announce they would no longer support ...
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Inside North Korea's evil masterplan to siphon Southeast Asia's cryptocurrency
A British defense think-tank warns Southeast Asia's cryptocurrency sector must act fast if it is to curb the threat posed ...
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PewDiePie to give $50K via blockchain app that deplatformed Alex Jones
PewDiePie will donate up to $50K in cryptocurrency during a live broadcast on DLive, but the app is likely not the streaming ...
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Bitcoin hits massive milestone with its 400,000,000th transaction
Bitcoin's blockchain has processed 400 million cryptocurrency transactions in just over 10 years - without permission from ...
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EOS and TRON's most used dapps are either gambling or 'high risk'
The most recent dapp statistics show cryptocurrency gamblng apps are all the rage on Ethereum's rival blockchains EOS and ...
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Ethereum insiders deny there’s only one computer keeping a copy of its blockchain
After Ethereum's most recent fork, the cryptocurrency community learned of its special "big, scary nodes," and immediately ...
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The US Army wants us to pretend autonomous tanks aren't killer robots
Killer robots? Are you going to throw that in the Army's face everytime you have an argument? You're being irrational. Look, ...
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The pros, cons, and taboo nature of enforcing smaller Bitcoin blocks
Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr has a suggestion: decrease the size limit of Bitcoin's blocks to make it easier for new ...
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Thispersondoesnotexist.com is face-generating AI at its creepiest
Nvidia's incredible people-creating AI is now available online. Now you can create startling images of people who do not ...
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What to expect from 5G, the next generation of wireless networks
Never in the history of the mobile phone has there been so much hype about a new technology ahead of its launch than there ...
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Here's an explainer about soft forks you'll actually understand
In this article, Hard Fork is going to take a look at what soft forks are, and how they work.
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The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new ...
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Anonymous Bitcoin miners are taking over the network
"Unknown," anonymous Bitcoin miners are now validating more blocks than anyone else on the network, as Bitmain's influence ...
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Cryptocurrency analysts predict the end of the Bitcoin bear market
Cryptocurrency analysts have used the cumulative age of Bitcoin transactions to determine exactly what point BTC holders ...
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There's more to Bitcoin maximalism than meets the eye
What exactly is Bitcoin maximalism? In this article, Hard Fork takes a look at what Bitcoin maximalism is, and what it means ...
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This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles
The first step in online propaganda and misinformation campaigns is a fake social media profile. According to this study, ...
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German artists brilliantly honeypot 'Nazis' into exposing themselves and their friends
Their site promised people cash to name participants of a violent anti-immigrant protest. But that wasn’t the real goal. ...
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Nvidia's new AI converts real-life videos into 3D renders
We've often wondered while playing games or experiencing virtual reality: how can this be closer to the real world? Nvidia ...
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Post-WannaCry: Only 3% of companies are prepared for new types of cyberattacks
One year ago, my phone lit up with the first text alert about the WannaCry ransomware attack. From the onset, it was clear ...
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The new space race is all about satellites: Pros and cons of each orbit
For most people, satellites probably bring to mind things like weather forecasts, GPS, or satellite TV broadcasting. Other ...
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The Australian Securities Exchange is delaying its blockchain plans until 2021
The ASX has delayed the launch of its distributed ledger system, just a few weeks after reassuring investors that blockchain ...
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Zuckerberg (not Mark) signs on to advise a major cryptocurrency exchange
Randi Zuckerberg has featured prominently in Huobi’s announcement of its new “expert advisory team,” alongside controversial ...
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PSA: Major EOS bug makes it possible to steal valuable resources directly from users
EOS has another major vulnerability: this one allows for valuable network resources to be effectively stolen from user accounts ...
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Thailand’s central bank will issue its own digital currency — but there’s a catch
The central bank of Thailand has revealed details of its new digital currency, developed using ledger technology built by ...
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Decentralized Wikipedia rival ditches Ethereum to launch on the EOS blockchain
Everipedia is the decentralized internet's new encyclopaedia, now live on EOS - despite developers admitting its blockchain ...
