ScienceA multi-institutional team of researchers used supercomputers to plot the most likely migration routes of ancient humans across Australia. The team built the first detailed topographic map of the ancient Sahul landmass from satellite, aerial, and undersea mapping data, then calculated the optimal walking routes across this landscape via least-cost path analysis. Devin White at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories said a supercomputer operated by the U.S. […]

University of New MexicoScientists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the University of Texas at El Paso have developed a computational tool to help drug researchers quickly identify anti-COVID molecules before the virus invades human cells or disable it in the early stages of infection. The team unveiled REDIAL-2020, an open source suite of computational models that can help to rapidly screen small molecules for potential COVID-fighting traits. REDIAL-2020 is based on machine learning […]

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)Researchers at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have developed algorithms that estimate and validate encryption security with less computational complexity. The "Min-entropy" metric typically is used to estimate and validate a source's ability to generate random numbers used to encrypt data. An offline algorithm developed by the researchers estimates min-entropy based on an entire dataset; […]

Texas A&M Engineering NewsA machine learning (ML) technique developed by researchers at Texas A&M University (TAMU) enables users to produce novel views of a scene from a single photo. TAMU's Nima Kalantari said, "We can download and use any image on the Internet, even ones that are 100 years old, and essentially bring it back to life and look at it from different angles." Kalantari and graduate student Qinbo Li trained a deep learning network to generate novel views based on a single […]

ZDNetComputer vendor Dell has issued a patch to remedy five longstanding vulnerabilities in driver software discovered by a team at threat intelligence solutions provider SentinelLabs. Security researcher Kasif Dekel found the flaws by exploring the DBUtil BIOS driver found in Dell's desktop and laptop PCs, notebooks, and tablets. The focus of his investigation was the software's dbutil_2_3.sys module, which is installed and loaded on-demand by initiating the firmware update process, then […]