I am Tom

Bio

I am a student in the UK studying computer science. I am currently studying for my GCSEs but I hope to move on to a job in computer science


Skills

How Britain's Emergency Alerts Work

According to Gov.uk when there is an emergency alert, mobile phone masts broadcast an alert. All phones that are connected to the towers will get the alert. They also say that the phone doesn’t need to be connected to mobile data to get the alert. These alert services use the CAP protocol.

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How quantum computers could break encryption

Quantum computing is a type of computing that uses quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. So what does this mean? Traditional computers, like the one you're probably using right now, use bits that can represent either a 0 or a 1. But in quantum computing, instead of bits, they use quantum bits or "qubits" which can represent a 0, a 1, or both at the same time. This is known as superposition.

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Moores Law might be Dead

In the past, Moore's Laws a driving theory behind the development of modern technology. It has enabled the creation of increasingly powerful and complex computer systems, from the early mainframe computers of the 1960s to the sophisticated smartphones and artificial intelligence systems of today. Without Moore's Law, many of the technological advances that we take for granted today would simply not have been possible.

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