 Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer June 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 158 vote(s)
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A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 ... | |
 Teens say they like vinyl records over CDs April 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 105 vote(s)
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A Canadian scientist says teens who used to view CDs as superior to older vinyl records now consider vinyl superior to the newer format. | |
 IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 176 vote(s)
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IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ... | |
 New technique to optimize computer speed June 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Who doesn’t dream of increasingly fast computers that consume less and less energy? To design these computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors. Until now, ... | |
Networking: Trouble for new Microsoft OS? August 08, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Microsoft Corp. is releasing a beta version of Windows Vista, its latest operating system -- said to be impervious to most network hackers -- and the accompanying server software is anticipated later this year, experts told ... | |
Not Much Anonymity for Unprotected File-Sharers: Researchers Examine P2P Networks September 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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The same technology that allows easy sharing of music, movies and other content across a network also allows government and media companies easy access to who is illegally downloading that content. | |
Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter January 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. ... | |
 Space scientist says texting is four times more expensive than receiving scientific data from space May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
 Make Ethanol in Your Own Backyard May 09, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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A Silicon Valley start-up called E-Fuel is showing exactly how ethanol can live up to its name as "the people´s fuel." The company recently announced that it will soon start selling a home ethanol system, ... | |
 Rice's single-pixel camera takes high-res images October 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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For all their ease and convenience, there are few things more wasteful than digital cameras. They're loaded with pricy microprocessors that chew through batteries at a breakneck pace, crunching millions of ... | |
 80-mph electric car to go on sale this summer in the US May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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Green Vehicles, a company based in San Jose, California, has recently revealed that it will begin selling two lithium-ion-powered electric vehicles early this summer. The three-wheeled TRIAC is a highway-capable ... | |
New type of home furnace to be introduced November 14, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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There's a new fad starting, which might eventually prove to be more a revolution than a fad: an efficient furnace that also generates electricity. | |
 Zinc Powder Will Drive Your Hydrogen Car September 11, 2005 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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A revolutionary method of using concentrated solar energy for producing hydrogen in a clean, safe and inexpensive way was developed by a cooperation of scientists from Israel, Sweden, Switzerland and France. ... | |
Researchers create world's first transparent integrated circuit March 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Researchers at Oregon State University have created the world's first completely transparent integrated circuit from inorganic compounds, another major step forward for the rapidly evolving field of transparent electronics. | |
 Panasonic Develops Coin-size Low-Power Bidirectional Wireless Module May 19, 2005 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its ultra-small low-power wireless module by incorporating a radio circuit and a microcomputer onto a ... | |
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