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Researchers violate Bell’s inequality with an atom and a photon

Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported the first Bell’s inequality violation measurement of a single entangled atom-photon pair. Entanglement is a fundamental yet mysterious feature of quantum ...

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Not-So-Spotty Material Breakthrough

Researchers master self-assembly of novel nanodots Using pulsed lasers, researchers have coaxed the metal nickel to self-assemble into arrays of nanodots – each spot a mere seven nanometers (seven billionths ...

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Shanghai Research Center for Integrated Circuit Design and Cadence Introduce New CPU/DSP Core-Based Methodology for SOC

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and the Shanghai Research Center For Integrated Circuit Design (ICC), China's first national integrated circuit (IC) design industrialization base founded by China's Ministry of Science and Techno ...

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Two Neptune-size Planets Outside Our Solar System

Astronomers using telescopes in Hawaii, California and Texas have found the first Neptune-size planets outside our solar system, far smaller than any planets previously detected. One of them is perhaps only 14 times the mass of the Earth ...

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Intel Boosts Mobile Celeron Performance

Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel® Celeron® M processors 350 and 360 for mobile PCs. Based on Intel's mobile architecture, the Intel Celeron M processor balances good mobile performance with exception ...

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Wide-viewing Envisat tracks 'son of B-15' iceberg's odyssey around Antarctica

A new Envisat viewing mode means that icebergs can be routinely tracked on their long trek around Antarctica, with regularly updated images of polar regions now available to highlight ice movements. The Advan ...

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Chelsio to Provide 10Gb Ethernet and Protocol Acceleration for Sun Solaris OS

Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards and protocol acceleration technology, today announced it is collaborating with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to develop drivers for Chelsio's family of ...

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Fujitsu Unveils Next Generation Intel-Based Mono-Processor Servers

PRIMERGY TX150 S2 Tower Server and PRIMERGY RX100 S2 Rack Server Ideal for Branch Offices, Data Centers and Mid-Tier Market Fujitsu Computer Systems today boosted the appeal of its entry-level mono-processor servers wi ...

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SANYO Will Adopt HD DVD Standard to Develop Next Generation DVDs

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) has decided to adopt the HD DVD standard promoted in the DVD forum, an international association that brings together some 220 consumer electronics, entertainment, software and other relat ...

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AMD Announces Industry's First x86 Dual-Core Processor

Today, AMD announces it is demonstrating the industry's first x86 dual-core processor. During demonstrations held at the company's Austin facilities, AMD is showing an HP ProLiant DL585 server powered by four d ...

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World's Highest Resolution 3D Images

NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of a novel 3D system-on-glass ("SOG") liquid crystal display ("LCD") that can display the world's highest resolution 3D images. NEC's original Horizontally Double-Density Pi ...

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Crystals in Nanofocus

Max Planck Scientists strike new paths in nanoanalysis and data storage with infrared light Scientists of the Nano-Photonics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have developed a new infrared- ...

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Guinness World Records Recognizes NASA Speed Record

Guinness World Records has recognized the world speed record set by NASA's hypersonic X-43A aircraft earlier this year in an experimental flight over the Pacific Ocean. Using a scramjet engine, the unpiloted, 12 ...

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World's First True Industrial Power Meter System-on-Chip

TDK Semiconductor Corp., a leader in the design and manufacture of mixed-signal semiconductors for world markets, today unveiled the world’s first true system-on-chip for industrial poly-phase power meters. ...

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Samsung Standardizes on Synopsys DesignWare USB IP

Multi-Year License Agreement Gives Samsung Access to Broad Portfolio of DesignWare IP Synopsys, Inc., the world leader in semiconductor design software, today announced that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leader in adva ...

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