MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries 39 minutes ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget 9-volts, AAs, AAAs or D batteries: The energy for tomorrow’s miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses. | |
'Dream team' to tackle profound questions in computer science 2 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Princeton University is the lead institution for a new $10 million National Science Foundation grant that will fund research on "intractability" – a concept that has profound implications for a broad range of fields, from ... | |
New data center architecture from commodity network elements 8 minutes ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing capability to end-users. | |
 Google courts bloggers-politicos at US presidential conventions 5 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle. | |
Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes 8 hours ago | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few ... | |
 A modern electoral tradition: selling votes on eBay 8 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Ever since the online auction site eBay sprung up 10 years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of Americans has tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal. | |
Taiwan's AU Optronics to build three new flat panel plants 5 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Taiwan's leading flat panel maker AU Optronics Corp. plans to build three plants at a cost of many billions of dollars, a science park official and a newspaper said Wednesday. | |
 China limits use of Olympians' names online 8 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves. | |
New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights August 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy. | |
Gasoline produced from biomass could be in fuel tanks by 2010 with new technology 19 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Turning everyday waste into gasoline may seem like a distant dream, but thanks to researchers with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc., it could become a reality within ... | |
Clueless about trading? Start networking online 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Erin O'Brien and her friends are do-it-yourself investors. As part of an online community at the brokerage Zecco, they consult each other on terminology, tax law and investment philosophy. Having tagged each other ... | |
Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the task and that most do not realize ... | |
Microsoft file format approved as ISO standard August 16, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The format used by Microsoft Corp.'s Office 2007 programs to save documents will become an international standard after appeals against the move failed to gather sufficient support, the International Organization ... | |
 Electric bikes selling briskly as gas prices climb August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- When Honora Wolfe and her husband moved to the outskirts of Boulder, Colo., she wanted an environmentally friendly way to commute to her job as a bookshop owner in the city. Wolfe, 60, found her solution ... | |
The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load 20 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, however, is a matter of debate. | |
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