Archive: 09/21/2004
Sony Releases New Smaller PlayStation 2
Sony Corporation has shown today a slimmer book-sized PlayStation 2 game console, which weighs just 900 grams, less than half the current model. Its width now only 1.1 inches, down from 3.07 inches for regular ...
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Antarctic glaciers accelerating in response to 2002 ice sheet collapse
Glaciers in Antarctica's most rapidly warming region have quickened their pace following the collapse of a Delaware-sized ice shelf in March 2002, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and a ...
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Controller family for high-performance micro-automation
The CPUs 221 and 222 for the Simatic S7-200 miniature control units from Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) are now 40 percent faster than before, with a command execution time of 0.2 microseconds per bit. ...
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$2.38 Million for Supernova Research
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of San Francisco has awarded $2,377,000 to the University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory, in support of the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory). ...
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Revolutionary Robot Pitched At Industrial Partners
Staffordshire University has teamed up with a firm of intellectual property developers to help put a revolutionary robotic concept to commercial use. The groundbreaking Flexibot robotic arm has been developed by a specialist team based at Staffordshire ...
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Innovative R&D and Computational Nanoscience Redefines Nanophase Materials
Groundbreaking progress in nanotechnology is giving rise to heightened interest among investors, manufacturers, and other market participants. With progress comes new issues and challenges for theoretical scientists and, acc ...
Sep 21, 2004 |
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The Graphical ‘Google’ for Engineering Drawings
Applied Search Technology Ltd (AST) of Aston University in Birmingham, UK has announced the launch of its new software CADFind Sketch and Search – the first commercial design retrieval system in the world that can find 2D ...
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Xilinx Ships One Million Spartan-3 FPGAs - Delivers PLD Industry's First 90nm Family In High Volume
Xilinx, Inc. today announced it has shipped one million 90nm Spartan-3 devices - executing on delivery of the world's first 90nm FPGA family. Xilinx leads the PLD industry by more than a year on 90nm process technology with ...
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California Scientists Wage Joint War on Internet Plagues
Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute, affiliated with UC Berkeley, have joined forces to launch a full-scale assault on viruses, wo ...
Sep 21, 2004 |
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Boeing, IBM Strategic Alliance Boosts Net-Centric Technology
Industry Leaders Join Together to Address $200 Billion Market Boeing and IBM announced a strategic alliance to address an estimated $200 billion market for ground and space-based systems to enhance the nation's military communications, i ...
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NU receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
The National Science Foundation today announced a $12.4 ($12.376 million for five years) million grant for a new nanoscale science and engineering center to be headquartered at Northeastern University. The grant fortifies a part ...
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ATI introduces the RADEON X700 family of visual processors with best-in-class price and performance
ATI Technologies Inc. today introduced the RADEON® X700 family of visual processors. The RADEON X700 delivers excellent graphics performance for gaming and visual processing, at a price suited to a broad range of customers. Delive ...
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Collect Your Data via Satelite
MeterSmart, the foremost expert in energy data management for utilities and an energy information service of Hunt Power, today announced what may be the utility industry's most innovative meter data collection service. The ...
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Genesis Mishap Investigation Board Status Report
The NASA Genesis Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) arrived at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah, September 10, to take charge of the investigation. The Genesis Sample Return Capsule (SRC) impacted the ground after its drogue an ...
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Wastewater may be a valuable energy source
The energy stored in Toronto's municipal wastewater could be harnessed to run water treatment facilities and contribute power to the city grid, says new University of Toronto research. The study, published in the August ...
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