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Industry's First HDMI Transmitters for PC Platforms

Silicon Image, Inc. today debuted the industry's first High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) transmitters for desktop and notebook PC applications. Capitalizing on increasing consumer interest in Media Center PCs and ...

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Intel Mobile Concept PCs Provide Vision Of Tomorrow's Digital Lifestyle

Intel Corporation today unveiled its latest concept mobile PCs, which advance Intel's vision of anytime, anywhere computing. The new designs demonstrate how future Intel Centrino mobile technology platforms could be used ...

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Intel Unveils Developer Kits, Labs Program To Accelerate Future Memory

Focus is on FB-DIMM Memory, Intel's *T Silicon Innovations Intel Corporation today introduced a product development kit (PDK) to accelerate the adoption of a new computer memory technology, called Fully-Buffered Dual I ...

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Sony Expands Hi-MD Format

Adding greater versatility to the Hi-MDTM format, Sony Corporation today announced the adoption of MP3 direct playback and the new Hi-MD PHOTO standard, which extends the potential of Hi-MD to serve in a new role as a medium ...

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World's First Face Recognition Biometric for Mobile Phones

OMRON Corporation, a global leader in automation, sensing and control technology, has announced "OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor", a world first in face recognition technology which can be implemented ...

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Chandra probes high-voltage auroras on Jupiter

Scientists have obtained new insight into the unique power source for many of Jupiter's auroras, the most spectacular and active auroras in the Solar System. Extended monitoring of the giant planet with NASA's ...

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Powerful Bursting Radio Source Discovery Points to New Class of Astronomical Objects

Astronomers at Sweet Briar College and the Naval Research Laboratory have detected a powerful new bursting radio source whose unique properties suggest the discovery of a new class of astronomical objects. ...

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Quantum computers may be easier to build than predicted

A full-scale quantum computer could produce reliable results even if its components performed no better than today's best first-generation prototypes, according to a paper in the March 3 issue in the journal Nature by ...

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Temperature inside collapsing bubble four times that of sun

Using a technique employed by astronomers to determine stellar surface temperatures, chemists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have measured the temperature inside a single, acoustically driven collapsing ...

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Unravelling a genetic mystery

Research by a University of Nottingham expert has shed new light on a genetic mystery that has its origins millions of years ago. A study by Dr Angus Davison has helped to uncover new facts about the most common organic com ...

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Immersion in virtual world alleviates pain from injury

Virtual reality games can help alleviate pain in children being treated for severe injuries, according to research published today in the Open Access, peer reviewed journal BMC Pediatrics. Immersion in a virtual world of ...

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Scientist of the University of Ghent discovers natural atom antihydrogen

On February 15, 2005 of the Physics/Einstein Year, the complete story of the discovery of natural atom antihydrogen, started in 1985, was published on-line. The antihydrogen problem has become a highly mediatic issue, bot ...

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Brain-Computer Interface

A research group led by Academy Professor Mikko Sams is developing a brain-computer interface, a device that transforms electrical or magnetic brain signals into commands a computer can understand. Equipment of this kind ...

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Hitachi First to Develop Intel Itanium 2 Processor Chipsets

Hitachi, Ltd. announced the development and operational verification of the world's first chipset supporting FSB (Front Side Bus) speeds of 667MHz for the Intel Itanium 2 Processor. In addition, the development also employs ...

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The most distant massive object ever detected

An international team of astronomers using the world's largest X-ray and optical telescopes have spotted the most distant massive object ever detected, a cluster of galaxies 9 billion light years distant from ...

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