Archive: 06/22/2005
Sony shareholders approve Howard Stringer as new CEO
Sony shareholders Wednesday approved making Welsh-born former television journalist Howard Stringer the iconic Japanese company's first foreign CEO as the electronics giant struggles to preserve an edge.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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When computers play games, artificial intelligence is the key to victory
From mahjong to Monopoly, bridge to Bingo, Sorry to Scrabble—games are serious fun. And with their diverse rules, they're also the perfect tools for exploring concepts in artificial intelligence (AI) and new approaches ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Renesas and Hitachi Develop High-Speed Programming Technologies for Multilevel AG-AND Flash Memories
Renesas Technology Corp. and Hitachi, Ltd. today announced that they have co-developed two high-speed programming technologies for AG-AND (Assist Gate-AND) flash memory*1 devices, high-speed data storage built with multilevel*2 ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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TOP500: IBM Dominates Global Supercomputing
In what has become a closely watched event in the world of high-performance computing, the 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released today at the 20th International Supercomputing ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Early mammal could bite like a snake
A small mammal that lived around 60 million years ago had poisonous fangs that enabled it to bite like a snake, the first time that an extinct mammal species has been found with this capacity, a new study says.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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AMD introduces new AMD Turion ML-40
AMD today introduced a new level of performance for highly mobile business professionals with AMD Turion 64 mobile technology model ML-40, the latest addition to AMD’s popular 64-bit processor family optimized for mobility.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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No promise of space station completion
The new head of the U.S. space agency says scientists are still working to determine the final shape of the proposed International Space Station.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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It's definite now: Solar sail spacecraft lost
A solar sail spacecraft failed to reach orbit because of an apparent booster rocket problem, Roskosmos, the Russian space agency said Wednesday.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Electronic connectivity isn't all that great, warns computer guru
"Although sophisticated electronics gadgets are making the world appear smaller, distance should not die," said computer guru Darl Kolb earlier this week at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Kolb, a visiting professor ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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The Making and Breaking of Microtubules
Microtubules are active protein polymers critical to the structure and function of cells and the process of cell division. In a living cell their growing ends constantly elongate and retreat in a thrashing ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Hummingbird flight an evolutionary marvel
Humans with an appreciation of beauty may have marveled for millennia at the artistry of a darting hummingbird, but scientists announced today that for the first time they can more fully explain how a hummingbird ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Scientists discover the body's marijuana-like compounds are crucial for stress-induced pain relief
A new study shows, for the first time, that the release of the body's own marijuana-like compounds is crucial to stress-induced analgesia – the body's way of initially shielding pain after a serious injury.
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Colorful math reveals how forces transmit through granular materials
Using color-changing plastic cylinders as a stand-in for a mass of granular material, Duke University physicists have created a computer-testable method to predict, particle-by-particle, how pushes, nudges and shoves at the ...
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Jun 22, 2005 |
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Dust belt around nearby star clear sign of exoplanet
Astronomers zooming in on a nearby star with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered unmistakable evidence of a planetary system: a perturbed dusty belt around the star that's analogous to the vast Kuiper ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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Buckyball aggregates are soluble, antibacterial
Research offers clues about C60 behavior in natural environments In some of the first research to probe how buckyballs will interact with natural ecosystems, Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnol ...
Jun 22, 2005 |
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