Physicists invent plastic diode
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Ohio State University researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode – an electronic component that could one day lead to flexible, low power plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits ...
Brands picked for narcissistic reasons
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French researchers say we pick certain brand names for an entirely narcissistic reason: they contain letters of the alphabet that are in our own name.
IBM: World's most powerful computer
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The TOP500 Organization, which tracks high performance computing, Monday named an IBM supercomputing system as the world's most powerful supercomputer. IBM said its Blue Gene/L has an unprecedented sustained performance of ...
Researchers approach quantum limit in third-order nonlinear light-light interaction
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Unprecedented nonlinear optical efficiency could make small organic molecules useful for optical computing, data processing and telecommunication. Researchers from Lehigh University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolo ...
Nations prepare to fight for Internet
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As the United States and Europe prepare to slug it out over the ownership of the Internet at the upcoming United Nations conference on information technology, there is growing concern that the World Wide Web ...
Networking: Feds calls BlackBerry essential
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The feds are intervening in a 5-year-old patent case against Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian-based developer of BlackBerry, arguing in court papers filed last week that the networked wireless computing devices are essential ...
U.S.: China must 'crack down' on piracy
Nov 14, 2005 |
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The Chinese government must "crack down" on piracy and enforce intellectual-property rights, the top U.S. trade official said Monday in Beijing.
Together across a continent: Bridging time and place with 'Shared Spaces'
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From the Jetsons to Back to the Future, videoconferencing has been a fixture in visions of how we imagine the world of tomorrow. Yet the dream of real-life interactions across a screen has stayed just beyond our grasp. Vi ...
U.S. may begin to lag behind in patents
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Researchers and others say corporate and public nurturing of inventors and research is faltering and the U.S. patent edge may begin to fade.
IBM Unleashes Next Generation Supercomputer
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IBM today offered clients a closer glimpse of the next generation p5-575 supercomputer with a pre-release version of the upgraded high-density POWER5+ processor-based server system that can be easily clustered for high performance ...
Rapidly accelerating glaciers may increase how fast the sea level rises
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Satellite images show that, after decades of stability, a major glacier draining the Greenland ice sheet has dramatically increased its speed and retreated nearly five miles in recent years. These changes could contribute ...
Samsung Now Mass Producing First 90nm 512Mb Mobile DRAM
Nov 14, 2005 |
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Samsung Electronics announced that it has started to mass produce 512Mb DRAM (dynamic random access memory) for mobile products, using 90nm circuitry. This marks the first time that 512Mb mobile DRAM will ...
Wastewater: Energy of the future?
Nov 14, 2005 |
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Professor Jurg Keller at Australia's University of Queensland said he and his colleagues have discovered how to turn wastewater into electricity.
Intel Delivers New Era For Virtualization
Nov 14, 2005 |
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Delivering the industry’s first hardware virtualization support for desktop PCs, Intel Corporation debuted new processors today that offer businesses improved manageability and bolstered security.
Light exercise a tonic to keep the brain young
Nov 14, 2005 |
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People don’t have to run marathons to keep their brain cells in shape — regular, light activity may do the trick. In the first study to show that lifelong exercise decreases cellular aging in the brain, scientists from the ...
