That's because the iPhone's severe design isn't about aesthetics: it's a solution to the very modern problem of how to combine computing, communications and mobility in a single device, says Mark Rolston, chief creative officer at Frog Design, which has worked on projects from Logitech devices to online services for Blockbuster (nyse: BBI - news - people ).

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Initially, this involved throwing lots of computing power at the problem.

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Scientists have tried to deal with the problem by using enormous computing power to sift systematically through billions of possible configurations.

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Rather than being aimed at solving a computing problem, Yurke says the tweezers were just a way of making a spontaneously assembling miniature tool.

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And while we're at it, the labour market survey shows starting salaries of new recruits rising at their fastest rate for three years - great news if you're a new recruit, but in current circumstances, it hints at a problem of skill shortages down the road, probably at their worst in IT and computing.

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Big Data has been a problem for businesses in the past because it's been expensive to store and because huge amounts of computing power are needed to analyse it to get anything useful from it.

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By throwing more computing horsepower at the problem than ever before and comparing the simulation results with experimental observations of real protein behaviour, it should be possible to find out why it has failed in the past.

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Simply put, severely compromised host environments, the emergence of a mobile, socially networked world and cloud computing have created a set of security requirements that can only be met by solving the malicious host problem.

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