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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: ...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images are already a common staple of battery research. Now, they can be paired with a simple algorithm to enable better prediction of lithium metal battery ...

Data security involves implementing strategies to safeguard digital information against unauthorized disclosure and modification across computing and communication infrastructures. Given the ...

The sophistication of AI fraud is attracting the attention of the global financial market and this challenge was a central theme of the RSA Conference, the world's largest cybersecurity event, held ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought—but don't panic. Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math. The tech giant's quantum team ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...

Abstract: We propose a public-key encryption algorithm based on torus automorphisms, which is secure, practical, and can be used for both encryption and digital signature. Software implementation and ...

“The Willow chip is not capable of breaking modern cryptography,” Google’s director of quantum tells us. “The Willow chip is not capable of breaking modern cryptography,” Google’s director of quantum ...