New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

Technology / Internet

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The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

14 hours ago | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

13 hours ago | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Technology / Energy

12 hours ago | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.

Google says Murdoch stories can be taken off

Technology / Internet

16 hours ago | 1 / 5 (2) | 2

Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. ...