{"id":199468,"date":"2017-02-20T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=199468"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:40:26","slug":"cosmic-rays-can-cause-serious-computer-glitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/199468-cosmic-rays-can-cause-serious-computer-glitches.html","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic rays can cause serious computer glitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer crashes and serious glitches may be caused by electrically-charged particles cosmic rays generate, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3171677\/it-industry\/computer-crash-may-be-due-to-forces-beyond-our-solar-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">Computerworld reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed a single event upset (SEU), the interference caused by cosmic rays is harmless to living organisms, but can have significant consequences for computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>An SEU can cause a change as trivial as altering\u00a0the colour of a pixel in an image, or\u00a0as catastrophic as the crash of an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Although SEU&#8217;s are rare, one has been blamed for causing a vote count error in Belgium in 2003. The flip of a bit caused a\u00a0candidate to gain 4,096\u00a0votes they should not have received. It was\u00a0detected as the candidate got\u00a0more votes than\u00a0it\u00a0should have been possible for them to receive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, semiconductor manufacturers are working on\u00a0solutions to combat cosmic ray interference.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/125660-best-hubble-telescope-pictures.html\">Best Hubble telescope pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer crashes and serious glitches may be caused by particles that cosmic rays generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31750],"tags":[41428,41432,41430],"class_list":["post-199468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-science","tag-cosmic-rays","tag-interference","tag-single-event-upset-seu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199538,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199468\/revisions\/199538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}