Breakthrough Technology Accelerates Solid-State Lighting
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"SPE" method boosts LED development with dramatic increase in light output Scientists at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method known as "SPE" to get ...
New material structure produces world's fastest transistor
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A new type of transistor structure, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has broken the 600 gigahertz speed barrier. The goal of a terahertz transistor for high-speed computing and communications ...
Fuel Cell Prototype for ThinkPad Notebooks
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IBM and SANYO Electric today unveiled initial plans for a prototype micro direct methanol fuel cell system for IBM ThinkPad notebooks. Leveraging SANYO's latest advancements in fuel cells that increase the ...
Terrorist-proof buildings from new high-tech sensors
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Scientists develop a breed of sensors that can survive extremes of heat and pressure Scientists have developed a new breed of sensors which can survive incredible levels of pressure and heat and that are helping researche ...
Sacred constant might be changing
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Scientists discover one of the constants of the universe might not be constant Physical constants are one of the cornerstones of physics – sacred numbers which we know to be fixed – but what if some of these constants ar ...
IEEE-USA white paper: US prosperity at risk; gigabit networks should be national priority
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The United States should deploy widespread wired and wireless gigabit networks as a national priority, according to a white paper from the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP).
Nanotech advance makes carbon nanotubes more useful
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Researchers at UCSD have made carbon nanotubes bent in sharp predetermined angles, a technical advance that could lead to use of the long, thin cylinders of carbon as tiny springs, tips for atomic force m ...
Freescale, Philips and STMicroelectronics Expand Industry's Largest R&D Alliance
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The Crolles2 Alliance partners STMicroelectronics, Philips and Freescale Semiconductor have reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate on the creation and validation of high-level System-on-Chip (SoC) intellectual property ...
Fujitsu Unveils Mission-Critical Server for Linux and Windows
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Fujitsu Limited, a leader in mission-critical computing, unveiled the new PRIMEQUEST server line based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor. The PRIMEQUEST server line combines data center class fault immunity ...
Dell, University of Texas Benchmark Performance of Standards-Based Supercomputing Clusters
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Dell and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin have teamed to benchmark high-performance computing (HPC) applications on standards-based computer hardware. The organizations' goal is to ...
UMC Expands X Architecture Support - First Pure-Play Foundry to Provide Qualified 90-nm Design Rules
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Foundry Fabrication Now Available for Fabless Customers Designing 90-nm X Architecture Chips The X Initiative and UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC is the first pure-play foundry to release qu ...
Giant X-Ray Loop Hints at Cosmic Particle Accelerator
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Astronomers have found a vast loop-like structure, 20 light years across, adjacent to the most massive star-forming region known in our galaxy. The loop, which was observed in X-ray wavelengths, is 15 tim ...
New project sets sights on future of computing
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MIT has teamed up with Quanta Computer Inc. on a five-year, $20 million joint research project designed to change the way people interact with technology. Project TParty, announced on Friday, April 8, will address the com ...
Stop or I'll download
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Police in Fresno, Ca., will soon be able to download mug shots and streaming video through computers in their patrol cars and special handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs). The city of 456,000 in the Golden State’s Cen ...
UC Berkeley to lead $19 million NSF center on cybersecurity research
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the University of California, Berkeley, will lead an ambitious multi-institution center to protect the nation's computer infrastructure from cyberattacks while improving ...
