Archive: 02/09/2006
One Laptop Project reaches critical stages
The One Laptop Per Child project, an effort spearheaded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory and joined by several corporate partners and international governments, has moved closer ...
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Accumulator ring commissioning latest step for spallation neutron source
The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has passed another milestone on the way to completion this year--the commissioning of the proton accumulator ring. ...
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Official! Size Really Does Matter...
Buy your female Valentine a priceless diamond ring and she will be faithful forever… but any cheap gift will lose her attention. Such comic-book logic has yet to be proven among humans, but it’s certainly the case in the ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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UM Team Devises Way to Use Metal in Micromachines
In the world of microtechnology, entire "machines," so tiny the naked eye can't see them, can be manufactured to create things like sensors that deploy car air bags. But conventional micromachine fabrication ...
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Science losing war over evolution
This just in from the front lines of the battle between evolution and intelligent design: evolution is losing. That's the assessment of Randy Olson, a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist turned filmmaker ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Renesas Develops Massively Parallel Processor Based on Matrix Architecture
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of a massively parallel processor based on a matrix architecture suitable for image and audio multimedia data processing.
Feb 09, 2006 |
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On the Scent of a Pre-Historic Particle Accelerator?
An international team of astrophysicists have used the H.E.S.S. telescopes to uncover the trail of a 10,000 year old supernova at the heart of the Milky Way. In a paper published in Nature (6th February 2006), they descri ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Love endures, but Valentine's Day roses are another story
Each Valentine's Day, sweethearts search for the perfect gift to represent their enduring affection. Shouldering the burden of embodying all this emotion is a delicate, finite bloom -- the rose. Ironically, ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Briefs: Cingular adds WiFi-capable Windows phone
Cingular Wireless is offering a new 8100 series phone that is equipped with Windows Mobile and integrated with WiFi.
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Briefs: U.K. wireless firms blast EU roaming plan
British mobile-phone companies Thursday chastised the European Union's proposed cap on roaming charges as an unwarranted intrusion on their business.
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Net neutrality and the regulation debate
Public-interest groups like Common Cause and the Consumer Federation of America want it; Internet service providers such as BellSouth, Verizon and AT&T, don't. Large internet companies, led by Google, are lobbying Congress ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Net control at question
Born in the United States, the Internet has long since become global -- but tensions have also grown over U.S. control of the core infrastructure and governance of the Net.
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NEC Develops Novel Silicon Nanophotonics Technology for Optical Interconnections
NEC Corporation today announced the successful development of fundamental silicon nanophotonics technology that facilitates optical data transmission in large-scale integration (LSI) chips by eliminating data transmission ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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NASA Preparing Oxygen Generation System for Space Station
NASA is preparing to launch an oxygen generation system to the International Space Station. The system uses water to generate breathable oxygen for crew members. Life support systems like this are necessary to support future ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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Scientists develop new inexpensive technology to produce hydrogen
By mimicking a protein found in nature and putting it to work, a group of scientists in Montana and New York is looking at producing alternative fuel using inexpensive sources and a unique chemical reaction. The invention ...
Feb 09, 2006 |
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