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Samsung Begins Mass Production of Environment-friendly Hard Drives

Samsung Electronics has begun the mass production of a 3.5” hard disc drive (HDD) that has much less environmental impact than any other on the market today. Development of the unique component was completed last September ...

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One Star's Life Ends With A Ring

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering embers of a dying star, and in their midst a strange doughnut-shaped ring. "Spitzer's infrared vision has revealed what could not be seen before - a m ...

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New Self-Assemble Building Blocks for Nanotechnology

University of Michigan researchers have discovered a way to self-assemble nanoparticles into wires, sheets, shells and other unusual structures using sticky patches that make the particles group themselves together in progra ...

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First Observation of an “Atomic Air Force”

The first sighting of atoms flying in formation has been reported by physicists at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) in the Aug. ...

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Some Globular Clusters May Be Leftovers From Snacking Galaxies

Globular star clusters are like spherical cathedrals of light - collections of millions of stars lumped into a space only a few dozen light-years across. If the Earth resided within a globular cluster, our night sky would ...

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No More HP Alpha Processors

Hewlett-Packard will release its final Alpha processor on Monday - the 1.3GHZ Alpha EV7z. The chip will be incorporated into the existing HP GS 1280 server. HP will continue to sell its AlphaServers through 2006, and will ...

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SiGe Semiconductor’s GPS Radio Enables the Industry’s Best Combination of Performance, Integration and Power Efficiency

SiGe Semiconductor today announced that the award winning SE4100 GPS radio IC has been integrated into a series of cost-effective, high-performance modules by Tyco Electronics. The modules leverage the industry-leading combinati ...

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World's Lightest Micro-Flying Robot Built by Epson

Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson") today announced that it has successfully developed a lighter and more advanced successor to the FR, the world's smallest and lightest micro-flying robot. Turning once again to its micromechatron ...

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TI Battery Management ICs Enable Safer, More Efficient Charging in Smart Phones, Portable Appliances

Providing increased power management functionality in smaller integrated circuits (ICs), Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced today two new families of single-chip, battery charge and power ...

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