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Trading & Investment Platforms Coinbase and Kraken use machine learning to detect fraud in microseconds while analyzing complex market patterns beyond human capability.
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Roomy Khan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The scientists note their new processors are capable of essentially performing quantum error correction mid-computation, with error-correcting cycle times 1.1 microseconds long.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
The Microsoft found a way to non-destructively measure the existence of this single electron in microseconds, and change the orientation of the Majorana zero modes.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
When a character on the character chain aligned with a column that was supposed to contain that character, the electromagnetic hammer for that column would actuate, pounding the paper through the ink tape and into the character in 11 microseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
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Roomy Khan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
The scientists note their new processors are capable of essentially performing quantum error correction mid-computation, with error-correcting cycle times 1.1 microseconds long.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
The Microsoft found a way to non-destructively measure the existence of this single electron in microseconds, and change the orientation of the Majorana zero modes.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
When a character on the character chain aligned with a column that was supposed to contain that character, the electromagnetic hammer for that column would actuate, pounding the paper through the ink tape and into the character in 11 microseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
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“Microsecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microsecond. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˌmī-krō-ˈsek-ənd 
-ənt
: one millionth of a second
Medical Definition
microsecond
noun
mi·cro·sec·ond
ˈmī-krō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one millionth of a second
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