Apple Unveils the New Video iPod
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Apple today introduced the new iPod, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen which can display album artwork and photos, and play video including music videos, video Podcasts, home movies and television ...
Molecules of light pulses
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Oct 12, 2005 |
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Corrected [contrubuted by Prof. Dr. Fedor Mitschke]: Researchers at the University of Rostock in Germany have made the world's first molecules of light pulses, which might allow a significant increase in the data transfer ...
Focusing ocean waves for power and mondo surf
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Oct 12, 2005 |
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A new water lens may allow engineers to focus ocean waves. Focusing water waves could potentially enhance the output of wave-powered energy generation schemes, protect ocean front real estate from wave damage, and even amplify ...
Nanotubes as measuring tips
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Engineers at Purdue University have shown how researchers might better use tiny hollow fibers called "multi-walled carbon nanotubes" to more precisely measure structures and devices for electronics and other ...
Vidcasting market set to grow
Oct 12, 2005 |
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The next Internet revolution may just begin at home on an almost non-existent budget. Over the past year, vidcasting, or video-on-demand broadcasts, have gained popularity across the Internet and are poised to become the ...
Proposed 'starshade' observatory could image continents on exo-solar planets
Oct 12, 2005 |
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A NASA institute charged with supporting novel space concepts that push the envelope with existing technology has chosen a University of Colorado at Boulder proposal to image distant planets around other stars ...
Is hydrogen a viable fuel alternative?
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and a research investigator at the University of Missouri-Rolla has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study how it might one day replace ...
Bird-like Dinosaur Is Oldest Raptor Discovered in South America
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Researchers have discovered the 90-million-year-old fossil remains of a previously unknown dinosaur species in Patagonia. Buitreraptor (pronounced bwee-tree-rap-tor) gonzalezorum -- the oldest member ever ...
Engineers build DNA 'nanotowers' with enzyme tools
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Duke engineers have added a new construction tool to their bio-nanofabrication toolbox. Using an enzyme called TdTase, engineers can vertically extend short DNA chains attached to nanometer-sized gold plates. This advance ...
US remains worst spamming nation
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Security firm Sophos Inc. has published today its latest report on the top twelve spam relaying countries over the last six months. Beating China and South Korea, the United States is still the superpower of spam.
The Web: Industry dismisses U.N. control
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Legal experts say that despite much caterwauling, the United Nations is unlikely to emerge as the next power broker of the Internet, and U.S. companies, which created cyberspace, are likely to retain their dominant role there. ...
Researchers find a potential key to human immune suppression in space
Oct 12, 2005 |
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Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center have identified a set of key immune-response genes that do not turn on in a weightless environment. The discovery is another clue in the effort to solve an almost 40-year-old ...
NEC Australia introduces thin mobile phone
Oct 12, 2005 |
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NEC Australia Wednesday introduced a new 96-gram mobile phone it says is the thinnest clamshell model in the world.
Scientists to assess societal implications of nanotechnology
Oct 12, 2005 |
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How will rapid technological change influence democracy, affect our privacy, and even change human identity itself? The National Science Foundation has awarded $6.2 million to explore such questions at the new Center for ...
Report: DDoS attacks big Net threat
Oct 12, 2005 |
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A new report warns that Internet service providers are facing an unrelenting barrage of distributed denial of service attacks aimed at crashing the network.
