Sentences with phrase «as powerful computers»

Proof - of - work is expensive, for example, as powerful computers from around the world are currently hashing puzzles at dizzying rates to secure blockchains like bitcoin and ethereum.

Still, the expensive price of high - end VR devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift — they cost $ 799 and $ 599, respectively — as well as the powerful computers required to operate them has made VR seem beyond the reach of the average consumer.

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t's enough of a computer that I've adopted it as my main machine in many ways, and when paired with an Apple pencil it becomes even more powerful.

Fields sees the computer as the most powerful tool around for managing people.

Nodes are run by individuals or groups of people who contribute money towards buying powerful computer systems, known as mining rigs.

With the advent of powerful computers, databases, and stock screeners it has become increasingly easy for investors to implement Graham's quantitative strategies, while the qualitative study of companies remains nearly as time consuming and research intensive as it was in 1934.

I also find it interesting that even after close to 100 years, hundreds of thousands of the worlds greatest minds have yet to be able to construct a computer as powerful as the human brain.

If we realize that recursive structures are extremely powerful contemporary techniques for solving problems in science and mathematics, and further realize that personal societies solve problems of their own — namely, their own enduring existence — then Prolog programs as prehensive structures can be an effective tool in analyzing and clarifying the relationship between a Whiteheadian ontology and current computer science.

If we suppose that God is all knowing n all powerful then as in the field of computers he is a programmer.

But as Tim Jordan notes, «Many hackers do not use a powerful computer but have discarded or cheap machines.

Phones are not as fast or as powerful as desktop computers, but they're also generally less secure.

Since it first appeared last November, the malicious software known as the Conficker worm has established itself as one of the most powerful threats the Internet has seen in years, infecting an estimated 10 million computers worldwide.

The OSSOS project uses powerful computers to hunt the images, and Kavelaars was presented with a bright object moving at such a slow rate that it was clearly at least twice as far from Earth Neptune and 120 times further from the Sun than Earth.

Originally developed in Cambridge, UK, for use in schools as a teaching aid, the Raspberry Pi is a credit - card sized computer powerful enough to run spreadsheets and word - processing programs, play games, and even display high - definition video.

The study, known as Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Prosthetic Arm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a powerful impact on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoration.

And as devices get more compact and powerful, they need ever - tinier transistors — the internal switches that keep computers computing.

NdFeB magnets are the most powerful on earth, and used in everything from computer hard drives and head phones to clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines.

With the aid of powerful computers and sophisticated software at Cardiffs 3DLab — one of the first to specifically use 3D seismic data as a primary research tool — scientists can rotate, slice, dice and practically julienne rock formations to gain important glimpses into the planet's geologic past.

Flick open the premier (October 1980) issue of Discover — now so rare it's kept in a locked drawer in our editorial offices — and one is offered «the first personal computer for under $ 200,» the Sinclair ZX80, which billed itself as «a complete, powerful, full - function computer,» with one kilobyte of user memory.

Encoding information in quantum particles such as photons, the quanta of light, could lead to powerful new technologies, such as ultrafast quantum computers and unbreakable quantum cryptography.

It took almost 30 years before computers became powerful enough to run two - dimensional simulations, in which stars are treated as circular disks.

Such robots - complex software run through powerful computers - work as tireless and unbiased super-researchers.

New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run on more powerful supercomputers.

Although these techniques must be refined before they can be put to commercial use, in the future they may provide new approaches for developing more powerful optical data storage systems such as CDs and even quantum computers.

Two - dimensional phosphane, a material known as phosphorene, has potential application as a material for semiconducting transistors in ever faster and more powerful computers.

Some are heading for the clouds — cloud computing, that is, a pay - as - you - go service, accessible from one's own desktop, that provides rented time on a large cluster of machines that work together in parallel as fast as, or faster than, a single powerful computer.

According to David Hughes of SGI, which is providing the computer technology for the virtual reality theatre, «it will be an amazingly powerful tool for communicating complex science principals and findings to the public... as well as providing a powerful resource in Glasgow for business and research institutions for special events.»

The iPhone 4 is also a powerful computer that packs more memory than all the Apple II computers in the world as of 1980.

As CERN ramps up the world's most powerful particle accelerator to operate well beyond its previous best performance, the lab's computer systems must likewise be tuned so they can properly capture and analyze all of this new output.

Lead author, Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences said: «With modern computer technology, such as CT scanning and digital visualisation, we now have powerful tools at our disposal, with which we can get a step closer to restore fossil animals to their life - like condition.»

Bill Joy, cofounder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems of Palo Alto, California, has been the driving force behind UNIX and such powerful computer languages as Java and, most recently, Jini.

The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are more powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than supercomputers.

As researchers team up with computer scientists to develop powerful algorithms and machine learning tools, they are increasing their capacity to identify patterns in huge datasets of biological information and reveal unknown connections to human disease.

For this study, the researchers could only make computer models of the atmosphere as we don't currently have telescopes that are powerful enough to actually «see» the chemicals it contains, but when the next - generation Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) eventually goes online, we'll be able to scan exoplanets» atmospheres to see what they're really made of.

No matter how powerful the computer used or how impressive the model output, any model of a natural system is only as good as the authors» understanding of the interaction between the physical laws that define their subject and the potential of simple small - scale interactions to produce large - scale complexity, more readily summarised as:

Instead of using x-rays, MRI uses a powerful magnet and transmits radio waves through the body; the images appear on a computer screen as well as on film.

He owns an internet company that only grows more and more powerful as its users grow more and more reliant on computers.

This time around, we learn that the Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg's Atlas, Woody Harrelson's Merritt, Dave Franco's Jack, plus Lizzy Caplan as the bubbly Lula after Isla Fisher dropped out) have been in hiding for a few years, but finally have a shot at starting over on the other side of the world in Macau if they can steal «the stick» — an all - powerful computer chip... or something like that — and deliver it to the dastardly tech guru Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) so that he could do evil things with it.

Ushering in a new era of openness for Monáe, Dirty Computer is simultaneously her most confident and intimate offering to date, as she sings on «Make Me Feel», «It's like I'm powerful with a little bit of tender.»

As the friends turn on one another, it shifts the attention away from an all - powerful digital demon and back to the computer users themselves.

A devious tech wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) forces the illusionists (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson) known as the Four Horsemen to steal a powerful chip that can control all of the world's computers.

While the laptop is heavy, takes a long time to boot up, and is often used as a word processing tool with typing and keyboarding being paramount, it's also a powerful device for computer programming and accessing Adobe Flash - based simulations, particularly in the sciences.

With a magnification tool powerful enough to complete one continuous zoom from an altitude of 38,000 miles to as low as 25 feet, and an ever - expanding network of related resources, it's a practically limitless teaching tool — that is, for schools with the high - speed Internet access and late - model computers they'll need to run the program.

He must ask Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to launch a major campaign (as part of the I - 3 initiative, perhaps) to give schools incentives to take advantage of new technologies that are rapidly coming on line — broadband, powerful computers, 3 - dimensional presentation of material (ala Avatar), and open - source curricular development (ala Wikipedia).

These, embedded in printed learning materials such as Student Guides and Job Aids, can serve as powerful tools for delivering additional information (with multi-media support) in the context of Instructor - Led Learning (ILT) sessions without computers.

Those qualities take a great deal of time and effort to develop in a child, but they ought to be as much a prerequisite to using powerful computer tools as is learning how to type.

Mean scores for the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» were also incorporated into the analysis for the fourth research question.

Results of the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» can be found in Figure 4.

Think of your car's computer as only as powerful as the inputs (or sensors) that are wired up to it.

As with the A3 Sportback 1.8 TFSI and 2.0 TDI Ambition models, which both cost $ 42,500, the more powerful and better equipped A3 sedans add 17 - inch alloys, aluminium window surrounds, door sills and cabin highlights, sports front seats, a sports steering wheel, more extensive trip computer and the four - mode Audi Drive Select system, which changes the car's throttle, steering and transmission response.