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Computer Rage - How Not To Destroy Your New High-Tech Gifts

At least 10 percent of high-tech gifts this holiday season may fall victim to "computer rage" - acts of uncontrolled frustration by their owners - estimates University of Maryland professor Kent Norman, a cognitive ...

Other Sciences /

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Panasonic Develops a 2.2-Micron Pixel Image Sensor for Mobile Handsets

The diagonal 5.6 mm (Type 1/3.2) sensor achieves 3-megapixel resolution to improve quality of camera phone pictures Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, today ...

Electronics /

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2005 - International Year of Physics, 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein

The United Nations has declared 2005 the International Year of Physics - and there's a very good reason why this particular year was chosen to raise worldwide public awareness of physics. It is also the 100th ...

Physics /

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STMicroelectronics Unveils Advanced Non-Volatile Memory and Advanced CMOS Platform Developments

STMicroelectronics, one of the world's leading suppliers of semiconductor devices, will participate as presenter or co-author in fifteen papers at the IEDM 2004 (International Electron Devices Meeting) Conference, which takes ...

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TI Intros 20MHz, High-Precision CMOS Amplifier Utilizing Proprietary e-trim Technology

Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced a high-precision, high-speed 12V CMOS operational amplifier from the company's Burr-Brown product line that utilizes e-trim - TI's new trimming technology that calibrates offset ...

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The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th

by Dr. Tony Phillips Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It's the Geminids. The best time to look is Monday night, Dec. ...

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Physicists Report Bose-Einstein Condensation of Cold Excitons

Bose-Einstein condensates are enigmatic states of matter in which huge numbers of particles occupy the same quantum state and, for all intents and purposes, lose their individual identity. Predicted long ago by Albert Eins ...

Physics /

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Travelling to Mars in your dreams?

Can you imagine spending eight weeks in bed? ESA is looking for female volunteers who are prepared to do just that for a study taking place in Toulouse, France, from the end of February next year. If you are ...

Space & Earth /

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Thomson to Support Next-Generation DVD Formats

Thomson to Introduce HD DVD Players and Provide Disc Replication Support for HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc Formats Thomson today announced that it will support next-generation DVD formats by manufacturing HD DVD and Blu-ray discs through its Technicolor business and ...

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Space Station Crew Running Low On Food And May Have to Return Home

NASA officials said yesterday that food is running so low aboard the International Space Station that flight controllers have instructed the crew to cut back on calories. The crew may have to leave the stati ...

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Xilinx Ships World's Highest Capacity FPGA Device

Xilinx, Inc. today announced the immediate availability and shipment of its Virtex-4 LX100 device, the world's highest capacity FPGA. Featuring over 110,000 logic cells and a host of embedded functionality - the LX100 integ ...

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