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Aiko - Credit: Project Aiko

A Perfect Female Companion: Project Aiko

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (75) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- Aiko is a humanoid robot with a built in Biometric Artificial Intelligence Neural System (Brain) designed by Le Trung in Canada. Aiko is slightly less than 5-feet high with 32.24-inch bust, ...


Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

Technology / Internet

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (73) | comments 42

(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...


aiko

Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- In August 2007, Le Trung invented Aiko, a Yumecom, or "Dream Computer Robot." Although it took only a month and a half to build Aiko's exterior, the artificial intelligence software has been ...


Nano Song

NanoTube Contest Brings Out the Hollywood Side of Nano Things

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How would you describe "nano" to someone who had never heard of it before? In a video contest held by the American Chemical Society (ACS), scientists-turned-filmmakers are explaining what ...


Google SPDY

Google's SPDY will speed up downloads

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...


Transiting exoplanet

Found: The planet that shouldn't exist (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 'most unlikely' discovery of a new planet which could spiral into its star within the next 500,000 years, has been made by Scottish astronomers.


Researcher nabs 'doubly magic' tin isotope

Researcher nabs 'doubly magic' tin isotope

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- With help from newly developed equipment designed and built at Michigan State University, MSU researchers have been able to make first-of-its-kind measurements of several rare nuclei, one ...


Scientist: Leak of climate e-mails appalling

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 31

(AP) -- A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's ...


Intel X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...


Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.


INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily ...


INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.


Taking the drudgery out of software development

Taking the drudgery out of software development

Technology / Software

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software developers will no longer have to reinvent the wheel when writing new programs and applications thanks to a clever new set of tools and a central repository of 'building blocks'.


Secure computers aren't so secure

Secure computers aren't so secure

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even well-defended computers can leak shocking amounts of private data. MIT researchers seek out exotic attacks in order to shut them down.


A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)

A New Cloaking Method: This is not a 'Star Trek' or 'Harry Potter' Story (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, ...