News tagged with computer problems


You can childproof your computer

Technology / Other

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Every few months, I receive a question from a reader whose computer was never the same after a grandchild came to visit.





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Solving big problems

Solving big problems with new quantum algorithm

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recently published paper, Aram Harrow at the University of Bristol and colleagues from MIT in the United States have discovered a quantum algorithm that solves large problems much faster ...


Game utilizes human intuition to help computers solve complex problems

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new computer game prototype combines work and play to help solve a fundamental problem underlying many computer hardware design tasks.


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Microsoft's monthly security fixes spare Windows 7

Technology / Software

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes.


The explainer: P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

P vs. NP -- The most notorious problem in theoretical computer science remains open

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 5

In the 1995 Halloween episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson finds a portal to the mysterious Third Dimension behind a bookcase, and desperate to escape his in-laws, he plunges through. He finds himself wander ...


A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

A researcher of the University of Granada, Spain, has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial ...


Call center optimization

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A research report in the current issue of the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modeling and Simulation suggests that help desks can be optimized by adding very few extra staff.


Microsoft program will return sound

Technology / Other

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Q. I recently removed the Roxio Easy Media Creator program from my Toshiba laptop, but I think the process also removed my system's sound. I've updated the system drivers, but when I check properties for the sound devices, ...


Baby's mp3 heart monitor

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new type of fetal heart monitor could save the lives of unborn infants in complicated pregnancies, according to a study published in the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation.


When good computers go bad

Technology / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Personal computers are complex devices. We use them every day to do so many things and quite frankly, I don't know how I got along without one back in the olden days (that's the '70s in case you were wondering). Their complexity ...


Computer game taps creativity of scientists to solve energy problems

Technology / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American Chemical Society's (ACS) 238th National Meeting will be the site of a rare "thought experiment" intended to focus the creative genius of hundreds of scientists on solutions to one of the 21st Century's most ...



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