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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...


Zooming in on data

Technology / Software

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies of all sizes are struggling with the growing flood of data and information. Staff can quickly lose sight of impending risks or hidden opportunities. Now a new zoom software is helping users get ...


Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.


Robotic perception, on purpose

Robotic perception, on purpose

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field ...


24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties

Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.


ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...


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Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo! targeted in patent case

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 7

A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent.


Self-managing internet applications flex their muscles

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A European research project that incubates self-managing internet applications is paying off. It has inspired a Wikipedia that?s better than the original and super-efficient streaming video, with more to ...


NVIDIA Unveils Next Generation CUDA GPU Architecture -- Codenamed 'Fermi'

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi". An entirely new ground-up design, the "Fermi" architecture is the foundation for the world’s first computational graphics processing ...


The self-managing, 'unbreakable' internet?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-powered internet applications typically need teams of experts to maintain them. Not any more, say European researchers who have built a system to create applications that manage and fix themselves.


Using Lasers to Map Bird Habitat

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO C ...


Software that gets reduced, reused, recycled

Software that gets reduced, reused, recycled

Technology / Software

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Service-centric software engineering is the latest paradigm in computing, and European researchers have developed a platform they believe will launch the concept into the business world.


Study looks at turning manure into revenues

Study looks at turning manure into revenues

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Livestock manure isn't often thought of as a value-added product, but researchers at Montana State University and MSU Extension are trying to change that.


Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Rinella, faculty in Animal and Range Science at Montana State University and an ecologist at the Fort Keogh Agricultural Experiment Station in Miles City, recently published the results ...


Intel Atom Processor Developer Program for Mobile Devices to Spur New Wave of Applications

Technology / Software

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To encourage the creation of innovative applications for Intel Atom processor-based products, Intel Corporation today launched the Intel Atom Developer Program for independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers.