Sentences with phrase «of traditional computers»

77 % of respondents said their use of traditional computers has decreased since buying a tablet, and 28 % said the tablet is now their primary computer.

The popularity of smartphones and tablet computers have hurt sales of traditional computers in the U.S. and other industrialized countries as consumers delay replacing their desktops and laptops.

Since the first iPad came out in 2010, sales of traditional computers have slowed in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.

That's around the number needed to meet a sought - after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional computers.

That's about the number needed to meet a sought - after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional computers (SN: 7/8/17, p. 28).

A comprehensive new test that pits the performance of traditional computers against quantum ones reveals that the machine marketed as the first commercially available quantum computer holds no speed advantage in its ability to solve a certain type of problem.

«We are starting to see a real change in the model of IT in schools; gone are the days of the traditional computer room.

It wasn't until the second generation model that iPad included aspects of a traditional computer, and left limitations behind.

While distribution of traditional computer programs will require consent and ongoing regulatory compliance, customers of many cloud - based services may not need to consent to the use or update of such software.

The attack vector has «all the hallmarks of a traditional computer worm,» he noted, adding that before...

If you're someone who works a lot on the go, if you want the ease of use of iOS but the power of a traditional computer, if you want tools that help you create, then what you want isn't any other tablet or laptop...

Not exact matches

In return for devoting their computers to running the blockchain (which publishes the ledger), they receive a reward in the form of a bitcoin that can be spent online or exchanged for traditional currency.

Let's face it, some of our best ideas happen when we're in the car, brushing our teeth, just about to fall asleep or otherwise un-tethered to a traditional computer.

The ads that populate the web, the kind that know to show sneakers to a runner or business books to executives, provide a model of what personalization outside the confines browsers and traditional computer systems might look like, Battelle says:

Apple made a big expansion to mobile devices, which now provide the vast bulk of the company's revenue compared to the traditional desktop and laptop computers.

The traditional methods of interacting with a computer - usually featuring a keyboard or a touch screen — will eventually seem quaint as these technologies proliferate, many in the industry believe.

Blockchains are a kind of data structure that's dispersed across a network of computers in a way that proponents say is more secure than traditional means of record - keeping.

Tablet sales are a booming part of the computer market, while sales of traditional PCs have fallen away: globally, tablets are likely to outsell laptops this year.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

The traditional method is referred to as running a full node and consists of running a program on your computer that holds a record of all Bitcoin transactions that have ever occurred (the blockchain).

An article about how traditional active stock management is dying because computers are better and cheaper, cites a simple quantitative value strategy compiled by Kenneth French, the Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance.

In a nutshell, Bitcoin generates currency at a predictable rate (which reduces the chances of an inflationary spiral like those that have occurred in countries with traditional currencies) through a computer - intensive mathematical process known as «Bitcoin mining.»

Unlike traditional money that is printed or minted in industrial facilities, bitcoins are created by lots of people around the world running computers, using open - source software that solves complex mathematical problems.

Those traditional ledgers are under the complete control of each company, stored on one computer system, in one data center, with perhaps a couple of backups in other locations.

More specifically, he voiced his belief that regulation in the US will not adversely affect BitFury as it does not perform the functions of a traditional financial services provider, instead only mining bitcoin and selling computer hardware for such operations.

This is the glitziest application of computer technology, one that even very traditional congregations are seeking to use.

While traditional heavy industry is declining, the service sector (made up of office workers and computer operators, fast food and restaurant workers, health care workers, bookkeepers, optical workers, and building custodians, among others) is rapidly expanding.

Not only does it look so much faster than traditional onboards (even at these slow speeds) but watching it, you can almost feel the wind and the rain and the cold coming right out of the computer screen at you.

Much of my work is traditional investigative reporting, usually the type described as CARR or «computer - aided research and reporting» where I go online to obtain records, access databases and run numbers, often to fact - check public sector employees.

That's about the number needed to meet a sought - after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional...

That's around the number needed to meet a sought - after milestone: demonstrating that quantum computers can perform specific tasks that are beyond the reach of traditional...

Again, our traditional computers are already capable of using such coding schemes, and they're conveniently complicated enough that quantum computers won't be better at cracking them.

And because of the huge computing power at Los Alamos, we worked on simulating the theory on a computer rather than using the traditional analytic mathematical techniques of the time.

The Orion StarBlast doesn't have computer control (like the Celestron NexStar 130 SLT), so it's meant for a more traditional, manual experience of exploring the night sky.

The onlooker, Chen Yunji, a 34 - year - old computer scientist and founding technical adviser of Cambricon Technologies here, explains that traditional processors, designed decades before the recent tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) research, «are slow and energy inefficient» at processing the reams of data required for AI.

BRAIN POWER A new artificial intelligence system can learn how to navigate the shortest route on the London Underground based on other examples, instead of being programmed to do so like a traditional computer.

In a traditional computer, a microprocessor is mounted on a «package,» a small circuit board with a grid of electrical leads on its bottom.

We can find it «in any type of device ranging from traditional cell phones to today's smartphones, and even in our washing machine,» explained one of the researchers, Guillermo Suarez de Tangil, from the Computer Science Department at UC3M.

Traditional botnets are built over time by taking control of ordinary people's computers without their knowledge, but a cloud botnet — or botcloud — can be put together in a couple of minutes just by purchasing space in the cloud with stolen credit card details.

The computers built by commercial firm D - Wave of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada, have many more qubits — about 500 — but use a method known as adiabatic quantum computing, which, unlike the traditional method, has not yet been proved to give a quantum power boost.

Traditional chips are sets of miniaturized electrical components on a small plate used by computers to perform operations.

Traditional computers contain a small number of very fast processors (modern laptops usually have two to four processors on a single chip) that are almost always working.

Because traditional hacking is based on the network itself; the idea of that is that you are looking for someone who is finding [a] way to go in [through] the orthodox ways of accessing the computer information.

Traditional injection molding would require the expense of creating a new mold and tooling for each, but with additive manufacturing the forms can be crafted simply and quickly using computer - assisted design, she explained.

It has been interesting to compare the technology used by the OU — a combination of computer conferencing with more traditional distance learning techniques — with Birkbeck's Internet - only courses.

The identification scheme is a combination of previous work by Jin using a person's unique brainprint instead of traditional passwords for access to computers and buildings combined with cyber-security work from Guo and Chen.

Unlike traditional artificial intelligence systems, which are typically limited to a set of instructions given to the computer - controlled opponents, this system gets smarter the more gamers play and the more data the system acquires.

«Because ultimately one will want to make such optical processors with maybe tens or hundreds of photonic qubits, it becomes unwieldy to do this using traditional optical components,» says Dirk Englund, the Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper.

Boasting a wide array of behaviors, including electronic, magnetic and superconducting, these multifunctional materials are poised to expand the way we think about the functions of traditional silicon - based electronic devices such as cell phones or computers.

A University of Texas at Dallas team is exploring whether teaching real - world science through a popular computer game may offer a more engaging and effective educational approach than traditional concepts of instruction.