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Mars may have had large sea near NASA rover landing site

Spacecraft observations of the landing area for one of NASA's two Mars rovers now indicate there likely was an enormous sea or lake covering the region in the past, according to a new University of Colorado at B ...

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Artificial Intelligence Creeps into the Commercial Market Despite Initial Hurdles

When artificial intelligence (AI) was developed to emulate human intelligence, scientists hoped it would be a blockbuster technology. Instead, the inability of end users to deal with its complexity and expensiveness and their la ...

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Seagate Creates Impressive Display of High-Density Storage Performance and Value with Savvio Drives

Seagate Technology is demonstrating the powerful benefits of high-density storage that delivers greater I/O performance in a smaller footprint. Savvio, the industry's first 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive, increases s ...

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Gambling on Gravitational Waves

At the Institute of Physics conference Photon 04 today, Professor Jim Hough, one of the UK's leading scientists, revealed that he thinks high street bookmakers are crazy to be offering odds of 100-1 on whether Gravitational ...

Physics /

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Philips delivers Universal Asynchronous Receiver/ Transmitters in compact packaging

Meeting requirements of space-constrained applications such as mobile phones, PDAs, PC peripherals and new generation consumer devices, Royal Philips Electronics today expanded its family of 16C Universal Asynchronous Receiver/ Tra ...

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Yale scientists bring quantum optics to a microchip

A report in the journal Nature describes the first experiment in which a single photon is coherently coupled to a single superconducting qubit (quantum bit or "artificial atom"). This represents a new paradigm in which ...

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SAMSUNG Electronics Unveils the First Mobile Phone with Hard Drive

- A tiny 1.5GB hard drive in the phone greatly expands memory capacity. - The phone is also equipped with a 2.2” QVGA LCD and mega-pixel camera. Samsung Electronics unveiled the first-ever mobile phone (model: SPH-V5400) with an internal hard ...

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Panasonic Introduces New DVD-Recorders with 400 GB Hard Disk Drives

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, today unveiled five new models of DIGA DVD recorders. The recorders have 160 to 400 GB hard disk drives, providing massive recordin ...

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Nokia introduces the smartest smartphone

Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, today announced the Nokia 9300, a new high-end smartphone with both beauty and brains. With outstanding voice and data capabilities, the Nokia 9300 provides the best all-in-one device for users, reg ...

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Chartered Launches 0.13-Micron, 0.11-Micron and 90-Nanometer Processes at 300-mm Fab

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, one of the world's top three dedicated semiconductor foundries, has achieved functional 0.13-micron 300-millimeter (mm) wafers from its Fab 7, demonstrating silicon results which exceeded internal targets within five months of the fir ...

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Hitachi Announced High-End TagmaStore™ Storage Platform

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., today announced its new Hitachi TagmaStore™ Universal Storage Platform, a combination of revolutionary advances in hardware and software that ...

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SAS, Intel To Deliver Business Intelligence For Linux On Intel® Itanium® 2 Processors

SAS, a leader in business intelligence, in collaboration with Intel Corporation, will bring SAS®9 to the Linux 64-bit operating system on the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor. This capability is scheduled to be available in November 2004. ...

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Intel Discloses WiMAX Silicon Plans

Intel Corporation today disclosed key technical details of its upcoming wireless broadband chip for WiMAX products, which will enable long-distance, high-speed wireless Internet access for homes and businesses. ...

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